dozen

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/ˈdʌzən/

noun 5

Collocations

ADJ.

fewer, half, many

I've bought half a dozen eggs from the market this morning.

VERB + DOZEN

bought, order, ordered, sold, want

I ordered a dozen eggs from the grocery store yesterday.

DOZEN + NOUN

africa, bedrooms, chemistry, comprehension, cream, doughnuts, eggs, puffs

She bought a dozen doughnuts from the bakery for the office party yesterday.

PREP.

about, from, in, on, than

I bought about a dozen eggs at the supermarket yesterday.

ADV.

only

I've only been to that restaurant a dozen times over the past five years.

Definitions

noun

A set of twelve.

Can I have a dozen eggs, please?

I ordered two dozen doughnuts.

A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many.

There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page.

There were dozens and dozens of applicants before the job was posted.

An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.

The dozen as a measure for iron ore remained almost completely constant at 12 cwts. during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

The number twelve.

noun

A member of a K-pop group who has no talent.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one

twelve
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adjective — denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units

twelve
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Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

baker's dozen

Thirteen; a group of thirteen.

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a dime a dozen

So common as to be practically or almost worthless.

Near-synonyms: not worth a dime; see also Thesaurus:worthless

six of one, half a dozen of the other

The two alternatives are equivalent or indifferent; it does not matter which one is chosen.

cheaper by the dozen

Handled more efficiently as a group, rather than individually.

twenty to the dozen

very fast, fluently

He can talk French twenty to the dozen.

Example Bank

Can I have a dozen eggs, please?

Wiktionary

I ordered two dozen doughnuts.

Wiktionary

There are hundreds of people from each continent in the convention but only a few dozen came from Africa.

Wiktionary

Each chapter in the textbook is followed by about a dozen comprehension questions.

Tatoeba · #19104

We bought the goods at $3 a dozen.

Tatoeba · #23173

How many dozen pencils do you have?

Tatoeba · #25764

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, dozen is marked as derogatory. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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