masses
Heaps of matter
Masses refers to large numbers of people, especially ordinary people as distinct from elites or leaders: The masses demanded change.
Politicians appeal to the masses.
Mass communication reaches the masses.
In physics, masses is the plural of mass—the quantity of matter in objects.
The masses can also mean large quantities generally: masses of paperwork.
Dense pressing crowd
- multitudeVery large number
- hordeDisorganized, overwhelming crowd
- swarmMass of moving insects
- mobDisorderly, aggressive crowd
gathering · crush · rally · spectators · attendees · onlookers · audience · demonstrators
Laborers lacking capital ownership
- working classManual laborers collectively
- commonersOrdinary citizens, untitled
- plebeiansRoman lower classes
- rank and fileOrdinary members collectively
grassroots · common people · ordinary folk · laborers · peasantry · underclass · hoi polloi · bourgeoisie
Amount of space filled
- weightMeasure of heaviness
- heavinessState of being weighty
- densityMass-to-volume ratio
- magnitudeSize or scale
tonnage · quantity · amount · load · aggregate · expanse · totality · size
Mass for the deceased
- liturgyFormal worship structure
- EucharistSacramental bread and wine
- communionProfound shared closeness
- celebrationFestive event marking occasion
sacrament · consecration · hymns · chants · incense · vestments · altar · congregation
throng
Dense pressing crowd
mob · gathering · crush · rally · spectators · attendees · onlookers · audience · demonstrators · protesters
proletariat
Laborers lacking capital ownership
- working classManual laborers collectively
- commonersOrdinary citizens, untitled
- plebeiansRoman lower classes
rank and file · grassroots · common people · ordinary folk · laborers · peasantry · underclass · hoi polloi · bourgeoisie · citizenry
volume
Amount of space filled
magnitude · tonnage · quantity · amount · load · aggregate · expanse · totality · size · capacity
requiem
Mass for the deceased
- liturgyFormal worship structure
- EucharistSacramental bread and wine
- communionProfound shared closeness
celebration · sacrament · consecration · hymns · chants · incense · vestments · altar · congregation · priest
countless
Too numerous to count
- innumerableToo many to count
- scoresAchieves points; many
- drovesLarge moving groups
legions · hordes · abundance · profusion · plethora · myriad · multitudes
- ceremonieswedding ceremony, wedding, weddings, graduation, graduations
- clumpsclumps, lumps, blobs, globs, gobs
- massbulk, matter, substance, gravity, momentum
- mob psychologymob mentality, herd behavior, pack mentality, deindividuation, collective behavior
- Socialist LiteratureCommunist Manifesto, Das Kapital, Marx, Engels, proletariat
- class revoltrevolutionary, revolt, uprising, rebel, insurgent
masseselite
Superior select group
aristocracy · nobility · upper class · ruling class · royalty
massesindividuals
Separate, distinct people
individual · person · the one · persons · single person
- center of massAverage position of distributed weight
- mass incarcerationExcessive imprisonment at scale
- mass tourismLarge-scale commercial travel
- the massesCommon populace collectively
- mass murderKilling multiple people simultaneously
- mass mediaLarge-scale communication channels
mass, massive, massed, massing, biomass, en masse, massless, critical mass