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mass medium

mass medium noun: any means of public communication that reaches a large audience.

Noun

mass medium (plural mass mediums or mass media)

  1. Any means of public communication that reaches a large audience.
    • 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...1904 July 6, “Daily Newspaper Investigations”, in Printers' Ink, volume 48, number 1, page 8
    • 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.1923, S. M. Fechheimer, “Class Appeal in Mass Media”, in Noble T. Praigg, editor, Advertising and Selling, by 150 Advertising and Sales Executives, Garden City, NY: Associated Advertising Clubs of...

mass medium meaning in Tamil and Persian

mass medium in Tamil

மக்கள் தொடர்புச் சாதனம்

mass medium in Persian

means of public communication that reaches a large audience
رسانه گروهی rasâne' ye goruhi

Examples of mass medium in a sentence

  • We look upon newspapers as a mass medium having practically universal acceptance by the public.1940, ——, quoting Wesley I. Nunn (Advertising Manager, Standard Oil Company of Indiana), The Newspaper as an Advertising Medium; a Handbook...
  • This notion is always implicit in the phrases “mass media,” “mass entertainment”—useless phrases obscuring the fact that English itself is a mass medium.1960, Marshall McLuhan, “Classroom Without Walls”, in Explorations in Communication, Boston: Beacon Press:

Forms of mass medium

pluralmass mediums
pluralmass media

Origin of mass medium

From mass (“bulk”, noun) + medium (“agency of conveyance”, noun).

Questions about mass medium

What does mass medium mean?
Mass medium means any means of public communication that reaches a large audience.
What is mass medium in Tamil?
Mass medium in Tamil is மக்கள் தொடர்புச் சாதனம். See Mass medium meaning in Tamil.
How do you use mass medium in a sentence?
We look upon newspapers as a mass medium having practically universal acceptance by the public.
What part of speech is mass medium?
Mass medium is a noun.
What is the plural of mass medium?
The plural of mass medium is mass mediums.

Words near mass medium in the dictionary

  1. mass market
  2. mass marketed
  3. mass marketing
  4. mass markets
  5. mass media
  6. mass medium
  7. mass meristem
  8. mass meristems
  9. mass monster
  10. mass monsters
  11. mass murder

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mass medium (page history and authors); mass medium (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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