Masses vs. People — What's the Difference?

Public celebration of the Eucharist in the Roman Catholic Church and some Protestant churches.

A people is a plurality of persons considered as a whole, as is the case with an ethnic group, nation or the public of a polity.

The sacrament of the Eucharist.

Human beings in general or considered collectively

A musical setting of certain parts of the Mass, especially the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei.

The members of a particular nation, community, or ethnic group

A stroke in billiards made by striking the cue ball off center with the cue held at a sharper angle than is usual, so that the cue ball moves in a curve before hitting its target ball.

The supporters or employees of a person in a position of power or authority

A unified body of matter with no specific shape

(of a group of people) inhabit (a place)

A grouping of individual parts or elements that compose a unified body of unspecified size or quantity

Humans considered as a group or in indefinite numbers. Often treated as a plural of person, alone and in compounds

A large but nonspecific amount or number

The mass of ordinary persons; the populace. Used with the

A lump or aggregate of coherent material

A body of persons living in the same country under one national government; a nationality.

The principal part; the majority

The citizens of a political unit, such as a nation or state; the electorate. Used with the.

The physical volume or bulk of a solid body.

Pl. peo·ples A body of persons sharing a common religion, culture, or language

Abbr. m(Physics) A property of matter equal to the measure of the amount of matter contained in or constituting a physical body that partly determines the body's resistance to changes in the speed or direction of its motion. The mass of an object is not dependent on gravity and therefore is different from but proportional to its weight.

Persons with regard to their residence, class, profession, or group

An area of unified light, shade, or color in a painting.

Persons subordinate to or loyal to a ruler, superior, or employer

(Pharmacology) A thick, pasty mixture containing drugs from which pills are formed.

A person's family, relatives, or ancestors

Masses The body of common people or people of low socioeconomic status

(Informal) Animals or other beings distinct from humans

To gather or be gathered into a mass.

To settle or inhabit with people; populate.

Of, relating to, characteristic of, directed at, or attended by a large number of people

To be present in or on (a place)

Done or carried out on a large scale

Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.

Total; complete

(countable) Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc.

Plural of mass

A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler.

Plural of masse

One's colleagues or employees.

(generically) People, especially a large number of people; the general population.

A person's ancestors, relatives or family.

The total population.

The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.

The lower classes or all but the elite.

Plural of person.

The common people generally;

(transitive) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.

(intransitive) To become populous or populated.

(transitive) To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.

To interact with people; to socialize.

The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.

Persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; - sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in French, and man in German; as, people in adversity.

The mass of community as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people.

One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English.

To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.

(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively;

The body of citizens of a state or country;

The common people generally;

Members of a family line;

Fill with people or supply with inhabitants;

Make one's home or live in;