dozen
IPA: dˈʌzʌn
noun
- 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.
Advertisement
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.
- They included half a dozen from the United Kingdom, several Canadians, some Germans and three Americans.
- They included half a dozen from the United Kingdom, several Canadiens, some Germans and three Americans.
- Similar research has been replicated in dozen of States, in Canada (2003,2006) and throughout the world (IASL).
- Instead of single robbers hitting as many as a dozen banks, they're identified and caught earlier before they can victimize others.
Advertisement
Advertisement