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half a dozen
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Princeton's WordNet
six, 6, VI, sixer, sise, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, sextet, sestet, sextuplet, hexadnoun
the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
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half a dozen
Half a dozen generally refers to the quantity of six, as a dozen is typically defined as twelve.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of half a dozen in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of half a dozen in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of half a dozen in a Sentence
I'd say that we're talking to at least half a dozen (customers).
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.
I’ve talked to at least a half a dozen families this week alone that have already met their (health savings account) maximum, in the first six weeks of the year.
Let's say you want to know what people in Kenya think about their government's performance -- with half a dozen clicks of your mouse, you can find out. Our data is a public good -- we want people to use it -- that's the whole point of doing the surveys.
I normally have 15 to 20 dogs for day care, but that's down to half a dozen; people can't get here.
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- نصف درزنArabic
- mitja dotzenaCatalan, Valencian
- نیم دوجینPersian
- demi-douzaineFrench
- setengah dozenMalay
- meia dúziaPortuguese
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