en masse
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowing from French en masse.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
en masse (not comparable)
- in a single body or group; as one; together
- "The net effect of the narrowing passage and the muddy interlude was that the heavy infantry elements arrived to meet the English in disorder (and not en masse) - which allows mobbing tactics which ordinarily wouldn't have been available, given their relative numbers." — [1]
Translations[edit]
in a single body or group
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Adverb[edit]
- en masse
- 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques, 1993 ed., Plon, ISBN 978-2-259-00359-1, chap. VII, p. 67
- L'humanité s'installe dans la monoculture ; elle s'apprête à produire la civilisation en masse, comme la betterave.
- — Mankind has opted for monoculture; it is in the process of creating a mass civilization, as beetroot is grown in the mass.[1]
- L'humanité s'installe dans la monoculture ; elle s'apprête à produire la civilisation en masse, comme la betterave.
- 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques, 1993 ed., Plon, ISBN 978-2-259-00359-1, chap. VII, p. 67
- in large amounts
- (Canada) in sufficient amounts
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References[edit]
- ^ 1973, John & Doreen Weightman (trans.), Tristes Tropiques, 2011 ed., Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0-14-197073-8, chap. VII
