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dozen

UK/ˈdʌzən/

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Australia/ˈdɐzən/

dozen noun: a set of twelve.

Noun (1)

dozen (plural dozens or dozen)

  1. A set of twelve.
    • Can I have a dozen eggs, please?
    • I ordered two dozen doughnuts.
  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.
    • There were dozens and dozens of applicants before the job was posted.
    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.

dozen meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

dozen in Hindi

twelve
दर्जन darjan

dozen in Tamil

பன்னிரண்டின் தொகுதி, இடசின், பன்னிரண்டு

dozen in Marathi

dozen
डझन ḍajhan

dozen in Urdu

twelve
درجن darjan
More languagesFewer languages
dozen in Bengali
ডজন, বার
dozen in Telugu
డజను ḍajanu
dozen in Malayalam
ഡസൻ ḍasaṉ
dozen in Kannada
ಹನ್ನೆರಡು
dozen in Punjabi
ਇੱਕ ਦਰਜਨ
dozen in Gujarati
ડઝન ḍajhan
dozen in Arabic
دَزِّينَة dazzīna, دَسْتَة dasta, دَرْزَن darzan
dozen in Indonesian
lusin
dozen in Persian
دوجین dojin
dozen in Thai
โหล lǒo
dozen in Vietnamese
tá
dozen in Myanmar
ဒါဇင် dajang

Examples of dozen in a sentence

  • 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.2020 January 26, Leah Asmelash, “Why traumatic brain injuries can be dangerous”, in CNN:
  • Jessalyn, known to her family as Jessa, was one of the dozens who were hit.2022 October 26, Christina Zdanowicz, Claudia Dominguez, Lauren M. Johnson and Sara Smart, “The Waukesha victims included an 8-year-old...

All 40 example sentences with dozen

Synonyms of dozen

  • a great deal of
  • a lot of
  • heap of
  • hundred of
  • load of
  • lot of
  • many
  • million of
  • score of
  • scad of
1 more synonymsFewer synonyms
  • thousand of

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of dozen

Forms of dozen

pluraldozens
pluraldozen
alternative formdoz

Plural of dozen: dozens or dozen

Origin of dozen

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”).

From a deliberate misspelling of doesn't, originally referring to someone who "dozen sing, dozen rap, dozen do anything."

Words formed from dozen

Phrases with dozen

Words that rhyme with dozen

Questions about dozen

What does dozen mean?
Dozen means a set of twelve.
What is dozen in Hindi?
Dozen in Hindi is दर्जन (darjan). See Dozen meaning in Hindi.
How do you use dozen in a sentence?
There are hundreds of people from each continent in the convention but only a few dozen came from Africa.
What part of speech is dozen?
Dozen is a noun.
How do you pronounce dozen?
Dozen is pronounced /ˈdʌzən/ (UK).
What is the plural of dozen?
The plural of dozen is dozens.

Words near dozen in the dictionary

  1. doze
  2. doze off
  3. doze offs
  4. dozed
  5. dozed off
  6. dozen
  7. dozenal
  8. dozenalism
  9. dozenalist
  10. dozenalists
  11. dozenals

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dozen (page history and authors); dozen (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); डझन (Marathi) (page history and authors); dozen (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); డజను (Telugu) (page history and authors); dozen (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dozen (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ડઝન (Gujarati) (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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