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Definition of Dozen
1. Adjective. Denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units.
2. Noun. The cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one.
Definition of Dozen
1. n. A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows.
Definition of Dozen
1. Noun. A set of twelve. ¹
2. Noun. (context: 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. ¹
3. Noun. (metallurgy) An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dozen
1. to stun [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: stun
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dozen
Literary usage of Dozen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1870)
"Three dozen railway carriage paid to all England and Wales. ... Three dozen rail
pald._W. D. WATSON, Wine Merchant, 72 and 73, Great Russell Street,corner ..."
2. Bulletin by Federal Board for Vocational Education, United States (1917)
"TO 1 of each of various kinds of battery, 33 J per cent 2 hydrometers .30 .60 1
dozen test tubes 1 lead-burning outfit 31. SO 31.50 1 battery voltmeter and ..."
3. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana (1895)
"More than a dozen of these were owned by men on the beach, and were allowed to
run loose among the hills, with a long lasso attached to them, ..."
4. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"... saloon-keeper consented to serve in the legislature or the board of aldermen.
Youthful ambition hardly THE MAN WHO HAD KILLED A dozen. aspired so much ..."
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