mass medium

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mass medium

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

noun mass mediums · mass media

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, f

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noun means of public communication that reaches a large audience

Deutsch	Massenmedium
Ελληνικά	μέσο μαζικής ενημέρωσης méso mazikís enimérosis
Русский	сре́дство массовой информации srédstvo massovoj informacii

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@misc{mass_medium_2026,
  title = {mass medium},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mass%20medium},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}