Plural of dozen
regular plural
The plural of dozen is dozens or dozen.
Forms of dozen
| Singular | dozen /ˈdʌzən/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | dozens dozen /ˈdʌzən/ |
| Countable | countable |
Plural of dozen by meaning
- a set of twelve.: dozens or dozen
- a member of a K-pop group who has no talent.: dozens
Dozens in a sentence
- Pack the shirts in dozens, please.
- There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page.
- It simply will not do to have dozens of children running around such a quiet event.From the entry do
- The new medical portal has dozens of topical categories containing links to hundreds of sites.From the entry portal
- Jack had dozens of miniatures of Napoleonic footsoldiers painted in detailed period regalia for his wargames.From the entry miniature
Meaning of dozen
- noun A set of twelve.
- 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.
Questions about the plural of dozen
- What is the plural of dozen?
- The plural of dozen is dozens or dozen.
- Is dozen countable?
- Dozen is a countable noun.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: dozen (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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