Science Fair Project Dictionary
Dozen
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English
Noun
dozen (plural dozens)
- a set of twelve
- Can I have a dozen eggs please
- There shouldn't be more than two dozen Christmas cards left to write
- (in plural dozens; followed by of) A large number.
- An old English measure of ore containg 12 hundredweight.
- Quotations
- 1957: The dozen as a measure for iron ore remained almost completely constant at 12 cwts. during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. — H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 139.
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Derived terms
- baker's dozen
- cheaper by the dozen
Translations
twelve
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dozens: a large number
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Dutch
Noun
dozen
- plural of doos
Translations
- English: boxes
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