dozen
A set of twelve.
Noun
- A set of twelve.
- Can I have a dozen eggs, please?
- I ordered two dozen doughnuts.
- There are hundreds of people from each continent in the convention but only a few dozen came from Africa.
- 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.
- Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz...
- 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. - 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 139:
- The number twelve.
Origin
From Middle English dozen, dozein, doseyne, from Old French dozaine (“a group of twelve”) (Modern French douzaine), from doze (“twelve”) + -aine (“-ish”), from Latin duodecim (“twelve”) (from duo (“two”) + decem (“ten”)) + -ana (“-ish”).
Forms
Synonyms
a great deal of a lot of heap of hundred of load of lot of many million of score of scad of thousand of
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Derived
baker's dozen banker's dozen Botany Bay dozen buzzin' dozen by the dozen cheaper by the dozen daily dozen decimal dozen devil's dozen dime a dozen double dozen dozenal dozens dozens offer dozenth half a dozen half dozen half-dozen long dozen nineteen to the dozen short dozen six of one, half dozen of the other ten to the dozen thirteen to the dozen
Noun derogatory
- A member of a K-pop group who has no talent.
Origin
From a deliberate misspelling of doesn't, originally referring to someone who "dozen sing, dozen rap, dozen do anything."