amass
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English *amassen (found only as Middle English massen), from Anglo-Norman amasser, from Medieval Latin amassāre, from ad + massa ("lump, mass").
Pronunciation Verbamass (amasses, present participle amassing; simple past and past participle amassed)
- (transitive) To collect into a mass or heap.
- (transitive) to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.
- to amass a treasure or a fortune
- to amass words or phrases
- (intransitive) To accumulate; to assemble.
- (collect into a mass) heap up, mound, pile, pile up, stack up; see also Thesaurus:pile up
- (gather a great quantity of) accumulate, amound, collect, gather, hoard; see also Thesaurus:amass
- French: amasser, amasser (intransitive)
- German: ansammeln, zusammensammeln, zusammenklauben, anhäufen
- Portuguese: amontoar
- Russian: копи́ть
- Spanish: amasar, acumular
amass (plural amasses)
- (obsolete) A large number of things collected or piled together.
- Synonyms: mass, heap, pile
- 1624, Henry Wotton, “The Seate, and the Worke”, in The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC ↗, I. part, page 38 ↗:
- [T]his Pillar [the "Compounded Order"] is nothing in effect, but a Medlie, or an Amaſſe of all the precedent Ornaments, making a nevv kinde, by ſtealth, and though the moſt richly tricked, yet the pooreſt in this, that he is a borrovver of all his Beautie.
- (obsolete) The act of amassing.
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