amasser

English

Etymology

amass +‎ -er.

Noun

amasser (plural amassers)

1. One who amasses.
   • 1677, John Webster, The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft, London, Chapter 4, p. 59,^[1]

     [He] was a man of prodigious pride and vain-glory, which led him […] into no small errours, being a great Amasser of strange and incredible stories, led to relate them by his meer ambition of hunting after fame and the reputation of an universal Scholar.

   • 1821, William Hazlitt, Table-Talk, London: John Warren, Essay 11, “On Thought and Action,” p. 260,^[2]

     The amassers of fortunes seem divided into two opposite classes, lean, penurious-looking mortals, or jolly fellows who are determined to get possession of, because they want to enjoy the good things of the world.

   • 1941, Cole Porter, “Pets,” lyrics written for the Broadway musical Let’s Face It! cited in Robert Kimball (ed.), The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, New York: Da Capo, 1992, p. 309,^[3]

     Some folks collect paintings,

     Some folks collect stamps,

     Some are amassers

     Of antimacassars

     And other Victorian camps.

   • 1944, George Weller, Bases Overseas, excerpt published in Anthony Weller (ed.), Weller’s War, New York: Crown, 2009, p. 488,^[4]

     The first act of the Japanese army on arriving at a new island is to go fishing and start a garden. The first act of the Americans is to buy something from the natives. The American is an amasser.

   • 2014, Judith Donath, The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, Chapter 11, p. 280,^[5]

     Marketers […] are among the most voracious amassers of information about what people do and say online.

Synonyms

• accumulator
• collector

Translations

one who amasses

• Portuguese: amontoador m

• Turkish: biriktirici (tr), biriktiren

Anagrams

• samares

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.mɑ.se/

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• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: amassai, amassé, amassée, amassées, amassés, amassez

Verb

amasser

1. to amass; to gather up

Conjugation

Conjugation of amasser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	amasser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	amassant /a.ma.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		amassé /a.ma.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	amasse /a.mas/	amasses /a.mas/	amasse /a.mas/	amassons /a.ma.sɔ̃/	amassez /a.ma.se/	amassent /a.mas/
	imperfect	amassais /a.ma.sɛ/	amassais /a.ma.sɛ/	amassait /a.ma.sɛ/	amassions /a.ma.sjɔ̃/	amassiez /a.ma.sje/	amassaient /a.ma.sɛ/
	past historic2	amassai /a.ma.se/	amassas /a.ma.sa/	amassa /a.ma.sa/	amassâmes /a.ma.sam/	amassâtes /a.ma.sat/	amassèrent /a.ma.sɛʁ/
	future	amasserai /a.ma.sʁe/	amasseras /a.ma.sʁa/	amassera /a.ma.sʁa/	amasserons /a.ma.sʁɔ̃/	amasserez /a.ma.sʁe/	amasseront /a.ma.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	amasserais /a.ma.sʁɛ/	amasserais /a.ma.sʁɛ/	amasserait /a.ma.sʁɛ/	amasserions /a.ma.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	amasseriez /a.ma.sə.ʁje/	amasseraient /a.ma.sʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	amasse /a.mas/	amasses /a.mas/	amasse /a.mas/	amassions /a.ma.sjɔ̃/	amassiez /a.ma.sje/	amassent /a.mas/
	imperfect2	amassasse /a.ma.sas/	amassasses /a.ma.sas/	amassât /a.ma.sa/	amassassions /a.ma.sa.sjɔ̃/	amassassiez /a.ma.sa.sje/	amassassent /a.ma.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	amasse /a.mas/	—	amassons /a.ma.sɔ̃/	amassez /a.ma.se/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is only usable with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• pierre qui roule n'amasse pas mousse

Related terms

• ramasser

Further reading

• “amasser” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• armasse
• massera
• ramasse, ramassé
• rasâmes

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Old French

Verb

amasser

1. to collect up; to get together

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ss, *-sss, *-sst are modified to s, s, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of amasser (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		amasser			avoir amassé
gerund		en amassant			Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle
present participle		amassant
past participle		amassé
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	amas	amasses	amasse	amassons	amassez	amassent
	imperfect	amassoie, amasseie, amassoe, amasseve	amassoies, amasseies, amassoes, amasseves	amassoit, amasseit, amassot, amasseve	amassiiens, amassiens	amassiiez, amassiez	amassoient, amasseient, amassoent, amassevent
	preterite	amassai	amassas	amassa	amassames	amassastes	amasserent
	future	amasserai	amasseras	amassera	amasserons	amasseroiz, amassereiz, amasserez	amasseront
	conditional	amasseroie, amassereie	amasseroies, amassereies	amasseroit, amassereit	amasseriiens, amasseriens	amasseriiez, amasseriez	amasseroient, amassereient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior	Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	amas	amas	amast	amassons	amassez	amassent
	imperfect	amassasse	amassasses	amassast	amassissons, amassissiens	amassissoiz, amassissez, amassissiez	amassassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	amasse	—	amassons	amassez	—

Synonyms

• asambler

Descendants

• French: amasser