Mass

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

Mass [Mass Masses] BrE [mæs] NAmE [mæs] noun
1. (sometimes mass)uncountable, countable (especially in the Roman Catholic Church) a ceremony held in memory of the last meal that Christ had with his ↑disciples
•to go to Mass
•a priest celebrating/saying Mass
see also eucharist, ↑communion
2. countable a piece of music that is written for the prayers, etc. of this ceremony
•Bach's Mass in B minor

Word Origin:
Old English mæsse, from ecclesiastical Latin missa, from Latin miss- ‘dismissed’, from mittere, perhaps from the last words of the service, Ite, missa est ‘Go, it is the dismissal’.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  aggregate, aggregated, aggregative, Mass, bulk, volume, multitude, masses, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed, batch