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How to pronounce masses in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms hoi polloi, mass, multitude, people, the great unwashed
Type of group, grouping
Has types following, audience, temporalty, laity, followers

Examples of masses

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Anna both detests her and requires her knowledge if she is to subdue the masses.
From the bostonherald.com
Talking to a lender was the last step in the process for the masses at Cal Expo.
From the sacbee.com
His works include 200 cantatas and masses, as well as many concertos and suites.
From the sacbee.com
He was certainly social and had masses of friends, particularly among the young.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Fairly obviously the possibility of starvation will hardly appeal to the masses.
From the ecocentric.blogs.time.com
Reverting to simplicity, he hit upon the idea of using masses filled with water.
From the time.com
Still, it might be years before the masses and loud love return to Pepsi Center.
From the sacbee.com
The letdown among the masses is a compliment to what these programs have become.
From the sltrib.com
Martin, the emotional coach, usually doesn't let the masses see his tender side.
From the kansas.com
More examples
  • The property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
  • Aggregate: formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole; "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of indebtedness"
  • Join together into a mass or collect or form a mass; "Crowds were massing outside the palace"
  • Batch: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
  • An ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
  • (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist
  • In physics, mass is a property of a physical body. It is a measure of an object's resistance to acceleration (a change in its state of motion) when a force is applied. It also determines the strength of its mutual gravitational attraction to other bodies. In the theory of relativity a related concept is the massu2013energy content of a system. The SI unit of mass is the kilogram (kg).
  • In physics, mass is a property of a physical body. It is a measure of an object's resistance to acceleration (a change in its state of motion) when a force is applied. It also determines the strength of its mutual gravitational attraction to other bodies. In the theory of relativity a related concept is the massu2013energy content of a system. The SI unit of mass is the kilogram (kg).
  • The ''''' (pronounced and the Bavarian form of the female noun ', i. e. "mass", though commonly misinterpreted as the neuter noun (with a long vowel) '', translating to "measure") is a term used in German-speaking countries for a unit of volume, now typically used for measuring beer. ...