ALL meanings of dozen
doz·en
D d - noun dozen A group or set of twelve. 1
- noun dozen twelve 1
- noun plural dozen lots 1
- noun plural dozen a group of 12. 1
- noun plural dozen the dozens, Slang. a ritualized game typically engaged in by two persons each of whom attempts to outdo the other in insults directed against members of the other's family (usually used in the phrase play the dozens). 1
- adjective dozen twelve. 1
- verb with object dozen to stun. 1
- number dozen If you have a dozen things, you have twelve of them. 0
- number dozen You can refer to a group of approximately twelve things or people as a dozen. You can refer to a group of approximately six things or people as half a dozen. 0
- quantifier dozen If you refer to dozens of things or people, you are emphasizing that there are very many of them. 0
- quantifier dozen You can also use dozens as a pronoun. 0
- determiner dozen twelve or a group of twelve 0
- determiner dozen (as pronoun; functioning as sing or plural) 0
- noun dozen a set of twelve 0
- noun dozen a large number 0
- noun dozen (Countable Noun) A set of twelve. 0
- noun dozen (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. 0
- noun dozen (metallurgy) An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight. 0