en masse


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en masse

 (ŏn măs′)
adv.
In one group or body; all together: The protesters marched en masse to the capitol.

[French : en, in + masse, mass.]
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en masse

(French ɑ̃ mas)
adv
in a group, body, or mass; as a whole; all together
[C19: from French]
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en masse

(ɑn ˈmæs, ɑ̃)
adv.
in a mass; all together; as a group: The guests arrived en masse.
[1795–1805; < French]
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en masse

A French phrase meaning in a mass, used to mean in a group or all at once.
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Adv.1.en masse - all togetheren masse - all together; "the students turned out en masse"
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en masse

adverb all together, together, as one, as a whole, ensemble, as a group, in a group, all at once, in a mass, as a body, in a body The audience left en masse.
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Translations

en masse

[ɑ̃ːŋˈmæs] ADVen masa, masivamente
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en masse

[ˌɒnˈmæs] adv
[arrive, return, move] → en masse; [resign, desert, defect] → en masse, massivement
(with nouns)
their arrival en masse → leur arrivée en masse
the resignation en masse of the European Commission → la démission en masse de la Commission Européenne
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en masse

adv
(= everybody together)alle zusammen; to resign en massegeschlossen zurücktreten
(= in large numbers, things) → in großen Mengen; (people) → in großen Gruppen; the flowers looked lovely en massedie vielen Blumen sahen schön zusammen aus
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One afternoon (I had then been three weeks at Lowood), as I was sitting with a slate in my hand, puzzling over a sum in long division, my eyes, raised in abstraction to the window, caught sight of a figure just passing: I recognised almost instinctively that gaunt outline; and when, two minutes after, all the school, teachers included, rose en masse, it was not necessary for me to look up in order to ascertain whose entrance they thus greeted.
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Had the abhorred effort been extorted from them by injudicious and arbitrary measures on the part of the Professor, they would have resisted as obstinately, as clamorously, as desperate swine; and though not brave singly, they were relentless acting EN MASSE.
This spirit had infected the Mercenaries, of which three regiments in particular were ready to come over to us en masse.
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Summary: Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], Mar 5 (ANI): The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) ministers have complained to Chief Electoral Officer of Andhra Pradesh Gopal Krishna Dwivedi about the en masse applications for deletion of voters from electoral rolls.