dozen
A set of twelve.
Noun 4 meanings
A set of twelve.
“Can I have a dozen eggs, please?”
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.
“There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page.”
An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
The number twelve.
Etymology
From Middle English dozen, dozein, doseyne, from Old French dozaine (“a group of twelve”) (Modern French douzaine), from doze (“twelve”) + -aine (“-ish”), from Latin duodecim (“twelve”) (from duo (“two”) + decem (“ten”)) + -ana (“-ish”).
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DOZEN at a glance
DOZEN has 5 letters and scores 15 points in Scrabble (D 2 + O 1 + Z 10 + E 1 + N 1) and 16 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,862 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with dozen
All rhymesOne letter away
- DOZED16
- DOZER15
- DOYEN9
- DOZES15
- COZEN16
- DOVEN9
- LOZEN14
- DIZEN15
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