What does en masse mean?

Definitions for en masse
ɑn ˈmæs, ɑ̃en masse

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. en masse, en bloc, as a groupadverb

    all together

    "the students turned out en masse"

Wiktionary

  1. en masseadverb

    in a single body or group; together

Wikipedia

  1. en masse

    Many words in the English vocabulary are of French origin, most coming from the Anglo-Norman spoken by the upper classes in England for several hundred years after the Norman Conquest, before the language settled into what became Modern English. English words of French origin, such as art, competition, force, machine, and table are pronounced according to English rules of phonology, rather than French, and are commonly used by English speakers without any consciousness of their French origin. This article, on the other hand, covers French words and phrases that have entered the English lexicon without ever losing their character as Gallicisms: they remain unmistakably "French" to an English speaker. They are most common in written English, where they retain French diacritics and are usually printed in italics. In spoken English, at least some attempt is generally made to pronounce them as they would sound in French; an entirely English pronunciation is regarded as a solecism. Some of them were never "good French", in the sense of being grammatical, idiomatic French usage. Some others were once normal French but have become very old-fashioned, or have acquired different meanings and connotations in the original language, to the extent that they would not be understood (either at all, or in the intended sense) by a native French speaker.

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  1. en masse

    "En masse" is a French term adopted into English that literally means "in a mass or group". It is used to describe actions or events that involve large numbers of people or things happening simultaneously or collectively.

Anagrams for en masse »

  1. enseams

  2. meaness

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of en masse in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of en masse in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of en masse in a Sentence

  1. Oleg Safonov:

    The need for beaches and the sea is very much a stereotype of recent years, which we already accept as our own opinion, our forefathers, even the wealthy, did not go en masse to foreign seas.

  2. John Royal:

    This is the first dismissal of a large group of cases en masse, specifically for the failure of the city to provide discovery of information necessary to prepare a defensive trial.

  3. John Cohen:

    What smugglers will do is they will infiltrate those online communities. They will provide information -- very oftentimes manufactured information -- that there's an opportunity to enter the John Cohen, they'll seek to organize large groups of migrants who will then travel to the southern border and present en masse.

  4. Gurshabad Grover:

    It can lead to en masse takedown of content, intermediaries are often happy to take down perfectly legal content just to avoid liability.

  5. Jay Cameron:

    There is no mystery as to why protests are spreading: Humanity is objecting en masse to the abuse of bureaucratic tyrants who for two years have suspended the checks and balances which are intended to protect the citizenry.


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