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masses | x |

As a noun masses

is .

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

masses

English

Noun

(head)
  • (plural only, generically) People, especially a large number of people
  • * '>citation
  • 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.
  • (plural only) The total population.
  • The masses will be voting this Tuesday.
  • * 1975 , (Monty Python), '(Monty Python and the Holy Grail)'':
  • 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.
  • (plural only) The lower classes or all but the elite.
  • Synonyms

    * (lower classes) unwashed

    Derived terms

    * unwashed masses

    Verb

    (head)
  • (mass)
  • See also

    * unwashed masses ----

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
  • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.
  • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike
  • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----