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doz

doz is the abbreviation of dozen.

Meaning of dozen

Noun (1)

dozen (plural dozens or dozen)

  1. A set of twelve.
    • Can I have a dozen eggs, please?
  2. (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.
    Synonyms:
    a great deal of
  3. An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
    • The dozen as a measure for iron ore remained almost completely constant at 12 cwts. during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 139
  4. The number twelve.

Noun (2)

dozen (plural dozens)

  1. (derogatory, South Korean idol fandom) A member of a K-pop group who has no talent.

Forms of doz

pluraldoz
alternative formdoz.

Questions about doz

What is doz the abbreviation of?
Doz is the abbreviation of dozen.

Words near doz in the dictionary

  1. Doyon
  2. Doyong
  3. doyra
  4. doyras
  5. doys
  6. doz
  7. doz.
  8. Dozal
  9. Dozals
  10. doze
  11. doze off

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doz (page history and authors); dozen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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