FromMiddle Englishdozen,dozein,doseyne, fromOld Frenchdozaine(“a group of twelve”) (Modern Frenchdouzaine), fromdoze(“twelve”) +-aine(“-ish”), fromLatinduodecim(“twelve”) (fromduo(“two”) +decem(“ten”)) +-ana(“-ish”).
dozen (pluraldozensordozen)
- Aset oftwelve.
Can I have adozen eggs, please?
I ordered twodozen doughnuts.
There are hundreds of people from each continent in the convention but only a fewdozen came from Africa.
Pack the shirts indozens, please.
2020 January 26, Leah Asmelash, “Why traumatic brain injuries can be dangerous”, inCNN[1]:Almost threedozen US service members were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries after the Iranian missile attack earlier this month, the Pentagon said Friday.
- (as plural only, always followed byof) Alarge,unspecifiednumber of, comfortably estimated in smallmultiples 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 beendozens of examples just on the first page.
There weredozens anddozens of applicants before the job was posted.
2012 March, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, inAmerican Scientist[2], volume100, number 2, archived fromthe original on14 June 2012, page128:Although there aredozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.
2022 October 26, Christina Zdanowicz, Claudia Dominguez, Lauren M. Johnson and Sara Smart, “The Waukesha victims included an 8-year-old boy, a loving grandmother and a woman excited to make her debut in the Dancing Grannies”, inCNN[3]:Jessalyn, known to her family as Jessa, was one of thedozens who were hit.
- (metallurgy) An old English measure ofore containing 12hundredweight.
1957, H.R. Schubert,History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page139:Thedozen as a measure for iron ore remained almost completely constant at 12 cwts. during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- (bingo) The numbertwelve.
- (followed byof: a large number of):a great deal of,a lot of,heaps of,hundreds of,loads of,lots of,many,millions of,scores of,scads of,thousands of
- (antonym(s) of“followed byof: a large number of”):few
twelve
- Afrikaans:dosyn
- Albanian:duzinë (sq)
- Arabic:دَزِّينَة f(dazzīna),دَسْتَة f(dasta)
- Egyptian Arabic:درزن m(darzan),دستة f(dasta)
- Gulf Arabic:درزن(dɐrzɐn)
- Aragonese:ducena
- Armenian:դյուժին (hy)(dyužin)
- Aromanian:duzinã f
- Azerbaijani:düjün
- Belarusian:ту́зін m(túzin)
- Bulgarian:дузи́на (bg) f(duzína)
- Burmese:ဒါဇင် (my)(dajang)
- Catalan:dotzena (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese:打(daa1)
- Hokkien:打(táⁿ)
- Mandarin:打 (zh)(dá)
- Czech:tucet (cs) m
- Danish:dusin (da) n,tylvt c
- Dutch:dozijn (nl) n
- Esperanto:dekduo
- Estonian:tosin
- Faroese:tylft f
- Fiji Hindi:darjan (hif)
- Finnish:tusina (fi),kymmenisen (fi)(about ten)
- French:douzaine (fr) f
- Galician:ducia (gl) f
- German:Dutzend (de) n
- Greek:ντουζίνα (el) f(ntouzína)
- Ancient:δωδεκάς f(dōdekás)
- Haitian Creole:douzèn
- Hebrew:תְּרֵיסָר (he)(t'resár)
- Hindi:दर्जन (hi) f(darjan)
- Hungarian:tucat (hu)
- Icelandic:tylft f,dúsin n,dúsín f
- Ido:dek-e-du (io),dekeduo (io)
- Indonesian:lusin (id)
- Irish:dosaen m
- Italian:dozzina (it) f
- Japanese:ダース (ja)(dāsu)
- Khmer:ឡូ (km)(lou)
- Korean:다스 (ko)(daseu)
- Lao:please add this translation if you can
- Latvian:ducis m
- Macedonian:дузина f(duzina)
- Malayalam:ഡസൻ (ml)(ḍasaṉ)(borrowed from English)
- Manx:dussan m
- Maori:taihana
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:dusin (no) n,tylft f
- Nynorsk:dusin n,tylft f
- Occitan:dotzena (oc) f
- Old Norse:tylft f
- Persian:دوجین (fa)(dojin)
- Polish:tuzin (pl) m
- Portuguese:dúzia (pt) f
- Romanian:duzină (ro) f
- Russian:дю́жина (ru) f(djúžina)
- Scottish Gaelic:dusan m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:туце n,туцет m
- Roman:tuce (sh) n,tucet m
- Slovak:tucet m
- Slovene:ducat (sl) m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian:dwanastk m,ducent m
- Spanish:docena (es) f
- Swahili:dazani (sw)
- Swedish:dussin (sv) n,tolft (sv) c
- Thai:โหล (th)(lǒo)
- Turkish:düzine (tr)
- Ukrainian:дю́жина f(djúžyna)
- Urdu:درجن f(darjan)
- Vietnamese:tá (vi)
- Volapük:degtelat (vo)
- Walloon:dozinne (wa) f
- Welsh:dwsin (cy) m
- Yiddish:טוץ m orn(tuts)
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dozen
- plural ofdoos
Related todoze.
dozen
- (transitive) Tostupefy.
- (intransitive) To become stupefied.
