mass medium
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.42 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The Inquirer seems to be the morning paper that reaches the greatest number of the masses, but touches the classes hardly at all. The North American is second as a mass medium, perhaps, and Philadelphia authorities credit it with considerable circulation among women on account of its fashion news, furnished through the Wanamaker store."
- "It is obviously impossible to sell the average technical product to the several million readers of a big mass medium because they have neither the means nor the need for it."
- "Newspaper advertising is the backbone of our whole sales program. We look upon newspapers as a mass medium having practically universal acceptance by the public."
- "The movie is to dramatic representation what the book was to the manuscript. It makes available to many and at many times and places what otherwise would be restricted to a few at few times and places. The movie, like the book, is a ditto device. TV shows to 50,000,000 simultaneously. Some feel that the value of experiencing a book is diminished by being extended to many minds. This notion is always implicit in the phrases “mass media,” “mass entertainment”—useless phrases obscuring the fact that English itself is a mass medium."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
mass mediums (plural)
mass media (plural)