Word.ws English Dictionary

short dozens

short dozens is the plural of short dozen.

Meaning of short dozen

Noun

short dozen (plural short dozens)

  1. Ten.
    • Ten women are considered by Mr. Rogers, of various nationalities and from various social strata […]. Inez Montez, Irish by birth but Spanish by choice and adding for years to the color of the California Gold Coast, makes up the tenth of this short dozen of Gallant Ladies.1928, Commonweal, volume 8, page 397
  2. Eleven.
    • Our short dozen of Aristophanic dramas may be taken to represent the fittest among the hundreds of other comedies which have perished.1898, Aristophanes. I. The Acharnians. II. The knights. III. The clouds, page x

Questions about short dozens

What is short dozens the plural of?
Short dozens is the plural of short dozen.

Words near short dozens in the dictionary

  1. short cuts
  2. short division
  3. short divisions
  4. short down
  5. short dozen
  6. short dozens
  7. short drink
  8. short drinks
  9. short drop
  10. short drops
  11. short e

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: short dozens (page history and authors); short 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “short dozens.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/short_dozens. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.