What does DOZEN mean?

Definitions for DOZEN
ˈdʌz əndozen

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. twelve, 12, XII, dozenadjective

    the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one

  2. twelve, 12, xii, dozenadjective

    denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units

Wiktionary

  1. dozennoun

    A set of twelve.

  2. dozennoun

    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. dozennoun

    An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.

  4. Etymology: From douzaine, from duodecim, from duo + decem

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Dozennoun

    The number of twelve.

    Etymology: douzaine, French.

    We cannot lodge and board a dozen or fourteen gentlewomen, but it will be thought we keep a bawdyhouse straight. William Shakespeare, Henry V.

    That they bear such huge leaves, or delicate fruit, I could never find; yet I have travelled a dozen miles together under them. Walter Raleigh, History of the World.

    By putting twelve units together, we have the complex idea of a dozen. John Locke.

    The number of dissenters was something under a dozen with them. Jonathan Swift, concerning the Sacramental Test.

Wikipedia

  1. Dozen

    A dozen (commonly abbreviated doz or dz) is a grouping of twelve. The dozen may be one of the earliest primitive integer groupings, perhaps because there are approximately a dozen cycles of the Moon, or months, in a cycle of the Sun, or year. Twelve is convenient because it has a maximal number of divisors among the numbers up to its double, a property only true of 1, 2, 6, 12, 60, 360, and 2520.The use of twelve as a base number, known as the duodecimal system (also as dozenal), originated in Mesopotamia (see also sexagesimal). Counting in base-12 can easily be accomplished on one's hands by counting each finger bone with one's thumb. Using this method, one hand can count to twelve, and two hands (with the second hand as a placeholder for representing units of twelve) can count to 144. Twelve dozen (122 = 144) are known as a gross; and twelve gross (123 = 1,728, the duodecimal 1,000) are called a great gross, a term most often used when shipping or buying items in bulk. A great hundred, also known as a small gross, is 120 or ten dozen. Dozen may also be used to express a large quantity as in "several dozen" (e.g., dozens of people came to the party).Varying by country, some products are packaged or sold by the dozen, often foodstuff (a dozen eggs). According to one source, sales by the dozen may derive from English units, a system under which “one egg could be sold for a penny or 12 for a shilling, which was equal to 12 pennies.”

ChatGPT

  1. dozen

    A dozen refers to the number twelve, typically used to describe a group or set of twelve items or people.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Dozen

    of Dozen

  2. Dozennoun

    a collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows

  3. Dozennoun

    an indefinite small number

  4. Etymology: [OE. doseine, dosein, OF. doseine, F. douzaine, fr. douze twelve, fr. L. duodecim; duo two + decem ten. See Two, Ten, and cf. Duodecimal.]

Wikidata

  1. Dozen

    A dozen is a grouping of twelve. The dozen may be one of the earliest primitive groupings, perhaps because there are approximately a dozen cycles of the moon or months in a cycle of the sun or year. Twelve is convenient because its multiples and divisors are convenient: 12 = 2 × 2 × 3, 3 × 4 = 12, 2 × 6 = 12, 60 = 12 × 5, 360 = 12 × 30. The use of twelve as a base number, known as the duodecimal system, probably originated in Mesopotamia. This could come from counting on one's fingers by counting each finger bone with one's thumb. Using this method, one hand can count to twelve, and two hands can count to 144. Twelve dozen are known as a gross; and twelve gross are called a great gross, a term most often used when shipping or buying items in bulk. A great hundred, also known as a small gross, is 120 or ten dozen. A baker's dozen, also known as a long dozen, is thirteen.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Dozen

    duz′n, adj. two and ten, or twelve.—n. a collection of twelve articles.—adj. Doz′enth.—Baker's dozen, Devil's dozen, thirteen. [O. Fr. dozeine—L. duodecimduo, two, and decem, ten.]

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'DOZEN' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3738

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'DOZEN' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2355

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'DOZEN' in Nouns Frequency: #1222

Anagrams for DOZEN »

  1. zendo

  2. zoned

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of DOZEN in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of DOZEN in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of DOZEN in a Sentence

  1. Alexis Temkin:

    The study actually shows that just over half of people surveyed said the' Dirty Dozen' list made them more likely to buy fruits and vegetables, only about 1 in 6 said our report would make them less likely to buy produce.

  2. Cameron Munter:

    There is great ‘Pakistan fatigue’ in Washington, not only have the last dozen years been very difficult, but other challenges - from Syria to Ukraine to Iran, to name a few - demand our attention.

  3. Scott Gottlieb:

    The entire Pacific Rim has less than 1,000 infections a day, people want to say China is lying about the two dozen cases that they’re reporting a day, which I don’t believe they are [lying]. Certainly, the entire Pacific Rim isn’t in on the conspiracy. It isn’t inevitable that we have a raging epidemic.

  4. Paul Ryan:

    And we need it, as Americans, for half a dozen reasons, one is, the Russians tried to interfere with our elections. Two, the Russians are not only bad actors, but they live off of chaos that they continue to try to create in our country.

  5. Nabam Tuki:

    According to preliminary reports, a hill caved in on a human settlement area trapping about two dozen-odd villagers. Locals have retrieved 16 bodies from the area and about six more people are reported to be missing, all roads leading to the village are cut off as there are heavy landslides. Medical teams are having a tough time reaching the village.

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