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Word: dozen (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • as plural only|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.
  • countable A set of twelve.
  • metallurgy An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.

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