What does dozen mean?
Definitions for dozen
ˈdʌz əndozen
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word dozen.
Princeton's WordNet
twelve, 12, XII, dozenadjective
the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one
twelve, 12, xii, dozenadjective
denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units
Wiktionary
dozennoun
A set of twelve.
Etymology: From douzaine, from duodecim, from duo + decem
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.
Etymology: From douzaine, from duodecim, from duo + decem
dozennoun
An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
Etymology: From douzaine, from duodecim, from duo + decem
Webster Dictionary
Dozen
of Dozen
Etymology: [OE. doseine, dosein, OF. doseine, F. douzaine, fr. douze twelve, fr. L. duodecim; duo two + decem ten. See Two, Ten, and cf. Duodecimal.]
Dozennoun
a collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows
Etymology: [OE. doseine, dosein, OF. doseine, F. douzaine, fr. douze twelve, fr. L. duodecim; duo two + decem ten. See Two, Ten, and cf. Duodecimal.]
Dozennoun
an indefinite small number
Etymology: [OE. doseine, dosein, OF. doseine, F. douzaine, fr. douze twelve, fr. L. duodecim; duo two + decem ten. See Two, Ten, and cf. Duodecimal.]
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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
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. duodecim—duo, two, and decem, ten.]
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'dozen' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3738
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'dozen' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2355
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'dozen' in Nouns Frequency: #1222
Anagrams for dozen »
zoned
zendo
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of dozen in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of dozen in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of dozen in a Sentence
It covers 20 projects. If these projects are finalised then that will represent several dozen billions of euros.
We're a local health department of 50 staff that cover five different key areas of public health, so when we look at our immunization team, we're talking about less than a dozen people.
It is unfortunate that of the nearly two dozen candidates running for president today, virtually none of them have placed a focus on this important issue.
Japan's insistence on this in the Six Party Talks (in the 2000s) was one of the factors that eventually led to a breakdown in those talks, many people wondered why the fate of a few dozen Japanese was more important than getting North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons.
In a single act in Sacramento, six individuals left dead and at least a dozen more injured, families forever changed. Survivors left to heal wounds both visible and invisible.
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- dosyne, dosynAfrikaans
- دزينة, دستةArabic
- тузінBelarusian
- десетки, дузинаBulgarian
- tucetCzech
- dusinDanish
- DutzendGerman
- ντουζίναGreek
- dozenoEsperanto
- docenaSpanish
- tosinEstonian
- دوجینPersian
- tusina, tusinoittain, sata, kymmenisen, kymmenenFinnish
- dizaine, douzaineFrench
- dusanScottish Gaelic
- duciaGalician
- dussanManx
- תריסרHebrew
- दर्जनHindi
- douzènHaitian Creole
- tucatHungarian
- դյուժինArmenian
- migliaio, dozzina, centinaioItalian
- תריסרHebrew
- ダースJapanese
- 다스Korean
- дузинаMacedonian
- dusinNorwegian
- dozijn, tientallenDutch
- dusinNorwegian Nynorsk
- tuzinPolish
- dúziaPortuguese
- duzinăRomanian
- множество, уйма, дюжина, десятокRussian
- туце, tucet, туцет, tuceSerbo-Croatian
- tucetSlovak
- ducatSlovene
- dussinSwedish
- dazaniSwahili
- โหลThai
- düzineTurkish
- дюжинаUkrainian
- درجنUrdu
- táVietnamese
- degtelatVolapük
- 打Chinese
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