masses
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masses
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masses pl (plural only)
- (generically) People, especially a large number of people; the general population.
- 2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
- Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes—the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating.
- The total population.
- The masses will be voting this Tuesday.
- 1975, Monty Python, Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
- Dennis: Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
- The lower classes or all but the elite.
- […] the ignorant masses […]
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- (lower classes): unwashed
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people, especially a large number
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masses
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mass
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Further readingEdit
- "masses" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 192.
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masses f
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masses f pl (plural only)
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Further readingEdit
- “masses”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.