Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
adverb
- in a mass; all together; as a group: The people rushed to the gate en masse.
adverb
- in a group, body, or mass; as a whole; all together
French, literally “in mass.”
A French phrase meaning “in a large body”: “The protesters left en masse for the White House.”
In one group or body; all together. For example, The activists marched en masse to the capitol. This French term, with exactly the same meaning, was adopted into English about 1800.