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Synonyms for mass

Most common

crowd lot heap pile bulk volume people

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A large quantity; a sum. Bulk; magnitude; body; size.

  2. n. 2

    Matter, material. A quantity of matter cohering so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size.

  3. n. 3

    Matter, material. A measure of the inertia of a mass of matter, one of four fundamental properties of matter. SI unit of mass: kilogram.

  4. v. 1

    To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to assemble.

Forms

Plural
masses → crowds, lots, heaps, piles…
Past participle
massed
e.g. massed → assembled, weighed, thringed…

Example sentences

  • accumulation Her only interest is the accumulation of money.
  • volume Please don't turn up the volume on the television.
  • bulk I sell rice in bulk or packed in 1 kilogram bags.
  • growth Women, then, are only children of a larger growth.
  • weight These beams will not carry the weight of the roof.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
masssteady
accumulationfalling
agglomeratefalling
volumefalling
bulkfalling
growthsteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
lot1, ton1
4 letters
many2, size1, load1, bulk1, pile1, lump1, heap1, swad
5 letters
press1, crowd1, sight1, weigh1, flock1, amass2
6 letters
people2, weight1, growth1, volume2, plenty2, staple2, throng1, polloi2, thring
7 letters
bigness2, thrutch
8 letters
majority4, mountain2, quantity3, assemble3
9 letters
substance2, magnitude3, dimension3, abundance3, multitude3, amplitude3
10 letters
collection3, assemblage3, generality5, concretion
11 letters
aggregation4, agglomerate4
12 letters
accumulation5, multiplicity5
14 letters
conglomeration5

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (many2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
masse
Italiano
sacco
Deutsch
Masse