(Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist;
the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field;
the property of something that is great in magnitude; "it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"; "he received a mass of correspondence"; "the volume of exports";
a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian eucharistic rite; "the priest said Mass";
a musical setting for a Mass; "they played a Mass composed by Beethoven";
an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people);
the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people";
a body of matter without definite shape; "a huge ice mass";
(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"; "it must have cost plenty";
join together into a mass or collect or form a mass; "Crowds were massing outside the palace";
gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole; "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of indebtedness";
occurring widely (as to many people); "mass destruction";
