Dozen

Noun

 * 1)  A set of twelve.
 * 2)  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)  An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.

Synonyms

 * a great deal of, a lot of, heaps of, hundreds of, loads of, lots of, many, millions of, scores of, scads of, thousands of

Antonyms

 * few

Derived terms

 * baker's dozen
 * Botany Bay dozen
 * cheaper by the dozen
 * double dozen


 * doz (abbreviation)
 * dozenth
 * six of one, half (a) dozen of the other
 * dozenal

Thesaurus
L, Sexagesima, boxcar, boxcars, duodecimo, eighty, eleven, fifteen, fifty, five and twenty, fortnight, forty, four and twenty, fourscore, fourscore and ten, fourteen, half a hundred, long dozen, ninety, nonagenarian, octogenarian, quindecennial, quindecim, quindecima, quindene, score, septuagenarian, seventy, sexagenarian, sexagenary, sexagesimo-quarto, sixteen, sixteenmo, sixty, sixty-four, sixty-fourmo, teens, thirteen, thirty-two, thirty-twomo, threescore, threescore and ten, twelve, twelvemo, twenty, twenty-five, twenty-four, twenty-fourmo, two dozen, two weeks, twoscore

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