mass
/mæs/ noun C2- The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.
- Celebration of the Eucharist.
- The main kind of church service, in some denominations. · She went to mass every Sunday for many years, and when she retired, she took to going on some weekdays, too.
- The sacrament of the Eucharist.
- A musical setting of parts of the mass.
Plural masses
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Our eyes fell upon a mass of rusted machinery, great rolls of paper, a litter of bottles, and, neatly arranged upon a small table, a number of neat little bundles.
The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it.
With these words the Witch fell down in a brown, melted, shapeless mass and began to spread over the clean boards of the kitchen floor.
All they could see was a mass of towers and steeples behind the green walls, and high up above everything the spires and dome of the Palace of Oz.
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