dozen

IPA: dˈʌzʌn

A set of twelve.
(as plural only, always followed by of) 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.
(metallurgy) An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
(bingo) The number twelve.

Examples of "dozen" in Sentences

The number of servers is now in the dozens.
The dispute was agitated in several dozen pamphlets.
Dozens of editors participated and argued vociferously.
There are a dozen major freeways that crisscross the region.
The scholars participate in the development of dozens of projects.
The symbol of the dozen perform the functions of a zero on the right.
The university offers dozens of graduate and postgraduate programmes.
Medics scrambled to treat the half a dozen people strewn around the scene.
The Espy Post is one of a half dozen most intact GAR posts in the country.
Instead of single robbers hitting as many as a dozen banks, they're identified and caught earlier before they can victimize others.