What is the meaning of masses?

noun

• The property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field.
  • synonyms: mass
• Often followed by `of'. ( a large number or amount or extent)
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
• An ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people.
  • synonyms: mass
• Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches. ( the celebration of the Eucharist)
  • synonyms: Mass
• A body of matter without definite shape.
  • usage: "a huge ice mass"
  • synonyms: mass
• The common people generally.
  • usage: "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"
  • synonyms: multitude, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed
• The property of something that is great in magnitude.
  • usage: "it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"; "he received a mass of correspondence"; "the volume of exports"
  • synonyms: bulk, mass, volume
• A musical setting for a Mass.
  • usage: "they played a Mass composed by Beethoven"
  • synonyms: Mass
• A sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite.
  • usage: "the priest said Mass"
  • synonyms: Mass
• The common people generally.
  • usage: "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"
  • synonyms: multitude, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed

verb

• Join together into a mass or collect or form a mass.
  • usage: "Crowds were massing outside the palace"
  • synonyms: mass