Mass
104
4.9
- noun
- /mæs/
:
misa
- You're gonna be late for Easter mass.
- attend Mass
- Sunday Mass
- celebrate Mass
That was because of people who went to Latin Mass as Catholics.
- That was because of people who went to Latin Mass as Catholics.
- And we always went to Mass, Holy Communion.
- The Catholic Church still in miraculous ways, uses the mass to celebrate Christ's body.
- So Catholic Mass we're in, we're on the back row of in a whisper.
Examples
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Parishioners came together to worship at mass, but sermons were delivered in English, French, and German.
Academic text (1993) -
The Priest can meet you after mass.
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- Hope that we'll see you at Sunday mass real soon.
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Missed you at mass, Jimmy.
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You never go to mass.
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- Have a nice time at mass.
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And we always went to Mass, Holy Communion.
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We begin our early morning program with the mass from the Church of Saint Jude.
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Do they still give alms to the poor at mass?
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Hope that we'll see you at Sunday mass real soon.
Synonyms
17
9.3
A Christian service when people bless and eat bread and drink wine to remember Jesus' Last Supper
9
4.9
A Christian ceremony where people share bread and wine to remember Jesus
8
6.3
A Christian ceremony when people eat bread and drink wine to remember the Last Supper
4
9.1
A Christian ceremony that blesses bread and wine to remember the Last Supper
1
8.1
A Christian ceremony when people bless and eat bread and wine to remember Jesus' Last Supper
1
8.9
A solemn Catholic church service with full ceremony, music, and incense
1
9.8
A religious ceremony where Christians bless bread and wine to remember Jesus' Last Supper
1
9.9
A Catholic church service where people receive bread and wine
1
9.2
A priest leads a short Roman Catholic church service with little or no singing
A Christian ceremony where people eat bread and drink wine to remember Jesus' death and his rising from the dead
A Christian ceremony where bread and wine are blessed and eaten to remember Jesus' Last Supper
A Christian service in which people receive bread and wine to show unity
A formal church service with set ceremonies and a serious mood
Compounds
- Formal
96
4.8
A thing that can kill or injure many people, like nuclear, chemical and biological devices
- Specialized
5
5.7
Point in an object where we think its mass is concentrated for balance and movement
- Specialized
4
3.2
A number that shows if a person's weight is healthy for their height
- Specialized
3
5.5
A machine that measures the masses of charged particles from a sample
- Specialized
3
3.4
A large area of air with about the same temperature, humidity, and pressure
- Specialized
2
6.2
The smallest amount of nuclear material needed to start and keep a chain reaction
- Specialized
1
3.6
A number that tells how heavy one atom of an element is in atomic mass units
- Specialized
1
4.0
The total mass in a system that does not gain or lose matter stays the same over time
- Formal
1
4.9
A computer attack that can damage systems and harm many people
- Specialized
1
8.6
A measure of how hard it is to change an object's motion when a force pushes it
- Specialized
1
7.4
The amount of matter in an object measured when it is not moving, not how heavy it feels
- Specialized
The speed of a chemical reaction depends on the amounts of the substances that react
- Specialized
The mass difference between a nucleus inside an atom and the total mass of its protons and neutrons
- Specialized
Amount of mass missing when protons and neutrons join and release energy
- Specialized
A word that names something you cannot count and usually has no plural form
A system of underground or above ground trains that carries many people quickly
- Specialized
A machine that separates tiny charged parts of atoms by mass and shows them on a graph
- Specialized
A theory that large areas of the brain work together for complex tasks
- Specialized
The idea that mass can turn into energy and energy can turn into mass
- Specialized
A measure of how strongly an object pulls other objects by gravity
- Specialized
The mass of an atom compared with one twelfth of a carbon-12 atom
- Specialized
The mass of all the atoms in one molecule compared with one twelfth of a carbon-12 atom
- Specialized
The mass a moving object seems to have as its speed gets near the speed of light
How Long
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mass comes from the old Latin word missa, which comes from mittere meaning 'to send'. People called the Christian service 'Mass' because it ends with the words 'Ite, missa est', a kind of 'sending' or dismissal, and that name stayed with the ceremony.