English Explanatory Dictionary

dozen

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A set of twelve.
  2. 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.
  3. An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
  4. The number twelve.
noun
  1. A member of a K-pop group who has no talent.

Pronunciation

/ˈdʌzən/ en-us-dozen.ogg

Word forms

dozen dozens doz

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”).

Synonyms

a lot of heap of hundred of load of lot of many million of score of scad of thousand of a great deal 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

Afrikaans: dosyn Albanian: duzinë Arabic: دَزِّينَة Arabic: دَسْتَة Arabic: درزن Arabic: دستة Aragonese: ducena Armenian: դյուժին Aromanian: duzinã Azerbaijani: düjün Belarusian: ту́зін Bulgarian: дузи́на Burmese: ဒါဇင် Catalan: dotzena Chinese Cantonese: 打 Chinese: 打 Chinese Mandarin: 打 Czech: tucet Danish: dusin Danish: tylvt Dutch: dozijn Esperanto: dekduo Estonian: tosin Faroese: tylft Fiji Hindi: darjan Finnish: tusina Finnish: kymmenisen French: douzaine Galician: ducia German: Dutzend Greek: ντουζίνα Ancient Greek: δωδεκάς Haitian Creole: douzèn Hebrew: תְּרֵיסָר Hindi: दर्जन Hungarian: tucat Icelandic: tylft Icelandic: dúsin Icelandic: dúsín Ido: dek-e-du Ido: dekeduo Indonesian: lusin Irish: dosaen Italian: dozzina Japanese: ダース Khmer: ឡូ Korean: 다스 Latvian: ducis
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