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en masse

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

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

en masse (French) [ɑ̃ mas]
adv
in a group, body, or mass; as a whole; all together
[from French]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.en masse - all togetheren masse - all together; "the students turned out en masse"

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.
Translations
en masse [ɑ̃ːŋˈmæs] ADVen masa, masivamente
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
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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The instant my father was dead creditors seemed to spring up out of the ground, and to assail us en masse.
You are supposed to have escaped, en masse, from your keepers.
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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