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  masses
      n 1: the common people generally; "separate the warriors from
           the mass"; "power to the people" [syn: multitude,
           masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great
           unwashed]

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "masses":
     cog, commonality, commonalty, creature, flunky, follower,
     hoi polloi, ignobile vulgus, inferior, junior, lightweight,
     lower class, lower orders, many-headed multitude, mobile vulgus,
     pawn, second fiddle, secondary, subaltern, subordinate,
     the common herd, the crowd, the great unnumbered,
     the great unwashed, the herd, the hoi polloi, the horde,
     the majority, the many, the masses, the mob, the multitude,
     third stringer, underling, understrapper, yes-man