What part of speech is masses?

Masses can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. masses is a noun, plural of masse.

Inflections

Noun

What does masses mean?

Definitions

Noun

masses - the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"

Examples of masses

#   Sentence  
1. noun Also, I'm quite clear on the fact that those in power now (and, in general, most anyone at the top of a pyrimidal power structure) tend to use the dominant religion as a cloak to hide their true motivations and as a tool to control the masses.
2. noun We still have masses of work.
3. noun The true makers of history are the masses.
4. noun The masses are entirely ignorant of the segregation problem.
5. noun The masses rose against the dictator.
6. noun There's a volcano emitting masses of smoke in Iceland.
7. noun He always stands aloof from the masses.
8. noun The revolutionary government, while raising troops from the masses and fighting a defensive battle, established a republic and executed Louis XVI.
9. noun Having reached the rank of prime minister, and with the enthusiastic support of the masses, it seems he is able to wield presidential powers.
10. noun Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
11. noun Religion is the opiate of the masses.
12. noun The mountains, too, at a distance appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand, they are rough.
13. noun The media's the most powerful entity on Earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
14. noun The net gravitational field at any point on the surface of the earth is the sum of the gravitational fields of all the masses in the universe; hence it displays diurnal and seasonal variations and variations with the phases of the moon and Jupiter; and those variations vary with latitude: if you live far from the poles, you weigh more at night.
15. noun It’s quite obvious that the purport of these misanthropic theories consists in slandering the working masses, relieving the imperialism from the responsibility for the bloody wars it provokes, and imposing the thought that wars are endless and are allegedly caused by aggresive tensencies in the human nature.
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noun
Also, I'm quite clear on the fact that those in power now (and, in general, most anyone at the top of a pyrimidal power structure) tend to use the dominant religion as a cloak to hide their true motivations and as a tool to control the masses.
We still have masses of work.
The true makers of history are the masses.
The masses are entirely ignorant of the segregation problem.
The masses rose against the dictator.
There's a volcano emitting masses of smoke in Iceland.
He always stands aloof from the masses.
The revolutionary government, while raising troops from the masses and fighting a defensive battle, established a republic and executed Louis XVI.
Having reached the rank of prime minister, and with the enthusiastic support of the masses, it seems he is able to wield presidential powers.
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
Religion is the opiate of the masses.
The mountains, too, at a distance appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand, they are rough.
The media's the most powerful entity on Earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
The net gravitational field at any point on the surface of the earth is the sum of the gravitational fields of all the masses in the universe; hence it displays diurnal and seasonal variations and variations with the phases of the moon and Jupiter; and those variations vary with latitude: if you live far from the poles, you weigh more at night.
It’s quite obvious that the purport of these misanthropic theories consists in slandering the working masses, relieving the imperialism from the responsibility for the bloody wars it provokes, and imposing the thought that wars are endless and are allegedly caused by aggresive tensencies in the human nature.

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