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• n  the common people generally
• n  the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
• n  (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
• n  an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
• n  (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist
• n  a body of matter without definite shape
• n  the common people generally
• n  the property of something that is great in magnitude
• n  a musical setting for a Mass
• n  a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite
• n  a shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically; the cue ball spins around another ball before hitting the object ball
• v  join together into a mass or collect or form a mass

• Yet last month when one of these programmers, Miguel de Icaza, 27, announced the creation of the Gnome Foundation to bring open-source software to the masses, he was flanked by .

• multitude
• mass
• hoi polloi
• people
• the great unwashed
• batch
• deal
• flock
• good deal
• great deal
• hatful
• heap
• lot
• mess
• mickle
• mint
• mountain
• muckle
• passel
• peck
• pile
• plenty
• pot
• quite a little
• raft
• sight
• slew
• spate
• stack
• tidy sum
• wad
• Mass
• bulk
• volume
• masse
• masse shot

News & Articles

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• Facebook expert: How to connect with the masses
  At the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, a Facebook execs talks about scales -- and how Queen Elizabeth reached the masses in a meaningful way through her coronation.
  June 19, 2013 - CNN Money
• Anniversary of Depeche Mode's Concert for the Masses
  Tuesday marked a historic day in Depeche Mode's career. Twenty five years ago, on June 18, 1988, the British synth-pop band played the 101st show of their Music For The Masses Tour
  June 19, 2013 - antiMUSIC
• Scully to take over @Dodgers tonight
  Legendary Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully will reach the masses through a new medium -- Twitter -- when he takes over the team's @Dodgers account for his first Tweetcast on Wednesday.
  June 19, 2013 - Major League Baseball

Quotes

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• President Bush in RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
  For the terrorists, Iraq was supposed to be a place where Al-Qaeda rallied the Arab masses to drive America out,Bush said. "Instead, Iraq has become the place where Arabs join with Americans to drive Al-Qaeda out. In Iraq we're witnessing...
• Benazir Bhutto in Forbes
  When the masses combine, the sound of their steps will suppress the sound of military boots,Bhutto, a former prime minister, told around 100 journalists protesting a new media clampdown.
• Helen Suzman in Washington Post
  Masses of black people are very disappointed with lack of delivery of housing, water and sanitation,Suzman said, although she praised the post-apartheid government for successes in economic policy and other areas.