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half-a-dozen

half-a-dozen is the alternative form of half a dozen.

Meaning of half a dozen

Numeral

half a dozen

  1. Six (6); often used approximatively.
    • Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings
  2. six
    Synonyms:
    half dozen

Questions about half-a-dozen

What is half-a-dozen the alternative form of?
Half-a-dozen is the alternative form of half a dozen.

Words near half-a-dozen in the dictionary

  1. Half Way Tree
  2. half-
  3. half-a-crown
  4. half-a-crowns
  5. half-a-dollar
  6. half-a-dozen
  7. half-and-half
  8. half-and-halfs
  9. half-angel
  10. half-angels
  11. half-ape

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Adapted from Wiktionary: half-a-dozen (page history and authors); half a 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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