dozen
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noun- 1.
A set of twelve.
Can I have a dozen eggs, please?
I ordered two dozen doughnuts.
There are hundreds of people from each continent in the convention but only a few dozen came from Africa.
Pack the shirts in dozens, please.
- 2.
(as plural only, always followed by of) 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.
There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page.
There were dozens and dozens of applicants before the job was posted.
- 3.
(metallurgy) An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
- 4.
(bingo) The number twelve.
- 5.
(derogatory)(South Korean idol fandom, derogatory) A member of a K-pop group who has no talent.
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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).