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en masse
[ ahn mas, en; French ahn mas ]
adverb
- in a mass; all together; as a group:
The people rushed to the gate en masse.
en masse
/ ɑ̃ mas /
adverb
- in a group, body, or mass; as a whole; all together
en masse
- A French phrase meaning “in a large body”: “The protesters left en masse for the White House .”
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of en masse1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of en masse1
Idioms and Phrases
In one group or body; all together. For example, The activists marched en masse to the capitol . This French term, with exactly the same meaning, was adopted into English about 1800.Example Sentences
The influenza division at the CDC lots staff to probationary firings as well as on Valentine's Day when further staff were fired en masse.
“And en masse, dozens and now over 100 attorneys decided that they’d rather not do what their job requires them to do.”
During the pandemic, families, tiny day-camper explorers and the public en masse hit the trails in their masks and basketball sneakers; it suddenly felt like Disneyland.
Part of the series’ tractor-beam pull is that installments don’t always end with a shamelessly audience-satiating happy climax: Characters are abducted, they lose their innocence, they die in childbirth, they die en masse.
That makes them not exactly ideal for releasing en masse.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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