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dz

dz 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.

Adjective capitalized: DZ

DZ (not comparable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of dizygotic.

Noun capitalized: DZ

DZ (plural DZs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of dropzone

Forms of dz

pluralDZs

Questions about dz

What is dz the abbreviation of?
Dz is the abbreviation of dozen.
What part of speech is dz?
Dz can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near dz in the dictionary

  1. dyuers
  2. Dyula
  3. dyun
  4. Dyuti
  5. dyvers
  6. dz
  7. Dzaoudzi
  8. Dzaudzhikau
  9. dzeggetai
  10. dzeggetais
  11. Dzelme

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dz (page history and authors); DZ (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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