dozen
/ˈdʌzən/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.35 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
noun
An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Almost three dozen US service members were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries after the Iranian missile attack earlier this month, the Pentagon said Friday."
- "There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: dozen, dozaine, duodecim
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdʌzən/
- British English: /ˈdʌzən/
Usage
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Synonyms
a great deal of
a lot of
heap of
hundred of
load of
lot of
many
million of
score of
scad of
thousand of