Messes vs Masses - What's the difference?
messes | masses |
(plural only, generically) People, especially a large number of people
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(plural only) The total population.
* 1975 , (Monty Python), '(Monty Python and the Holy Grail)'':
(plural only) The lower classes or all but the elite.
(mass)
As nouns the difference between messes and masses
is that messes is while masses is .As a verb messes
is (mess).masses
English
Noun
(head)- Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes—the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating.
- The masses will be voting this Tuesday.
- Dennis: Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses , not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.