Dozen

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1 English 1.1 Noun 1.1.1 Derived terms 1.1.2 Translations 2 Dutch 2.1 Noun 2.1.1 Translations

English

Noun

dozen (plural dozens)

1. Twelve.

   Can I have a dozen eggs please

2. About twelve.

   There shouldn't be more than two dozen Christmas cards left to write

3. (in plural dozens; followed by of) A large number.
4. An old English measure of ore containg 12 hundredweight.

   Quotations

   • 1957: The dozen as a measure for iron ore remained almost completely constant at 12 cwts. during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. — H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 139.

Derived terms

• baker's dozen
• cheaper by the dozen

Translations

twelve or about twelve

Dutch: dozijn n (1,2), tientallen pl (3), dozijnen pl (3) Finnish: tusina, kymmenisen (about ten) French: douzaine f

Italian: dozzina f Swedish: dussin n

dozens: a large number

Finnish: kymmeniä, satoja (of: + partitive plural), tusinoittain French: des centaines, des milliers (of: de)

Italian: centinaia, migliaia (of: di)

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Dutch

Noun

dozen

1. Plural of doos

Translations

• English: boxes