dozen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: bingo
engineering
games
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: 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”).
Inflected forms:
form: dozens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dozen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: doz
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A set of twelve.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Pack the shirts in dozens, please.
Almost three dozen US service members were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries after the Iranian missile attack earlier this month, the Pentagon said Friday.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: 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 and jade.
Jessalyn, known to her family as Jessa, was one of the dozens who were hit.
gloss: An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
pos: noun
examples: The dozen as a measure for iron ore remained almost completely constant at 12 cwts. during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
gloss: The number twelve.
pos: noun
Synonyms: a lot of
heap of
hundred of
load of
lot of
many
million of
score of
scad of
thousand of
Antonyms: few
Related words: gross
Derived words: 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
twenty to the dozen
two-dozen
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: dosyn
lang: Albanian
word: duzinë
lang: Arabic
word: دَزِّينَة
roman: dazzīna
lang: Arabic
word: دَسْتَة
roman: dasta
lang: Arabic
word: درزن
roman: darzan
lang: Arabic
word: دستة
roman: dasta
lang: Arabic
word: درزن
roman: dɐrzɐn
lang: Aragonese
word: ducena
lang: Armenian
word: դյուժին
roman: dyužin
lang: Aromanian
word: duzinã
lang: Azerbaijani
word: düjün
lang: Belarusian
word: ту́зін
roman: túzin
lang: Bulgarian
word: дузи́на
roman: duzína
lang: Burmese
word: ဒါဇင်
roman: dajang
lang: Catalan
word: dotzena
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 打
roman: daa¹
lang: Chinese
word: 打
roman: táⁿ
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 打
roman: dá
lang: Czech
word: tucet
lang: Danish
word: dusin
lang: Danish
word: tylvt
lang: Dutch
word: dozijn
lang: Esperanto
word: dekduo
lang: Estonian
word: tosin
lang: Faroese
word: tylft
lang: Fiji Hindi
word: darjan
lang: Finnish
word: tusina
lang: Finnish
word: kymmenisen
lang: French
word: douzaine
lang: Galician
word: ducia
lang: German
word: Dutzend
lang: Greek
word: ντουζίνα
roman: ntouzína
lang: Ancient Greek
word: δωδεκάς
roman: dōdekás
lang: Haitian Creole
word: douzèn
lang: Hebrew
word: תְּרֵיסָר
roman: t'resár
lang: Hindi
word: दर्जन
roman: darjan
lang: Hungarian
word: tucat
lang: Icelandic
word: tylft
lang: Icelandic
word: dúsin
lang: Icelandic
word: dúsín
lang: Ido
word: dek-e-du
lang: Ido
word: dekeduo
lang: Indonesian
word: lusin
lang: Irish
word: dosaen
lang: Italian
word: dozzina
lang: Japanese
word: ダース
roman: dāsu
lang: Khmer
word: ឡូ
roman: lou
lang: Korean
word: 다스
roman: daseu
lang: Latvian
word: ducis
lang: Lithuanian
word: tuzinas
lang: Macedonian
word: дузина
roman: duzina
lang: Malayalam
word: ഡസൻ
roman: ḍasaṉ
lang: Manx
word: dussan
lang: Māori
word: taihana
lang: Middle English
word: doseyne
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: dusin
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: tylft
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: dusin
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: tylft
lang: Occitan
word: dotzena
lang: Old Norse
word: tylft
lang: Persian
word: دوجین
roman: dojin
lang: Polish
word: tuzin
lang: Portuguese
word: dúzia
lang: Romanian
word: duzină
lang: Russian
word: дю́жина
roman: djúžina
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: dusan
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: туце
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: туцет
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: tuce
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: tucet
lang: Slovak
word: tucet
lang: Slovene
word: ducat
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: dwanastk
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: ducent
lang: Spanish
word: docena
lang: Swahili
word: dazani
lang: Swedish
word: dussin
lang: Swedish
word: tolft
lang: Thai
word: โหล
roman: lǒo
lang: Turkish
word: düzine
lang: Ukrainian
word: дю́жина
roman: djúžyna
lang: Urdu
word: درجن
roman: darjan
lang: Vietnamese
word: tá
lang: Volapük
word: degtelat
lang: Walloon
word: dozinne
lang: Welsh
word: dwsin
lang: Yiddish
word: טוץ
roman: tuts