Dozen

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  • noun. A set of 12.
  • noun. An indefinite, large number.
  • adjective. Twelve.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A collection of twelve things; twelve units: used with or without of: as, a dozen eggs, or a dozen of eggs; twelve dozen pairs of gloves.
  • noun. In old English law, a municipal district consisting originally of twelve families or householders. Compare tithing, riding, hundred.
  • To make up into bundles of twelve, as certain kinds of dressed hides.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows.
  • noun. An indefinite small number.
  • noun. thirteen; -- called also a long dozen.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A set of twelve.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one
  • adjective. denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units
    • Word Usage
    "They included half a dozen from the United Kingdom, several Canadiens, some Germans and three Americans."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    few  
    cross-reference
    bakers' dozen  long dozen  
    Equivalent
    cardinal  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    cousin  
    Same Context
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    Seat  a'  bay  bow  canoe  
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    L  Sexagesima  a great deal  a lot  boxcar  
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