dozen
A set of twelve.
Example
“Can I have a dozen eggs, please?”
Other meanings
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.”
An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
Synonyms
- twelve
Word history
From Latin "duodecim" (twelve).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “dozen” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.