Mass
Related: democracy - group - mass culture - mass media - mass society - mass production - mainstream - mob - proletariat - society - sociology - working class
Contrast: elite
The Fourth Estate, Il Quarto Stato (1901) - Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo
The masses
The Masses are the body of common people or people of low socioeconomic status: “Give me your tired, your poor,/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” (Emma Lazarus). --American Heritage DictionaryThe great body of the people, as contrasted with the higher classes; the populace. --http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mass [May 2006]