dozen
/ˈdʌzən/ sustantivo B1En español: decenas, docena
- A set of twelve. · Can I have a dozen eggs, please?· I ordered two dozen doughnuts.
- 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.· There were dozens and dozens of applicants before the job was posted.
- An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
- The number twelve.
Plural dozens
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But all your dozen of nurslings cry--
And then she called a dozen of her slaves, who were the Winkies, and gave them sharp spears, telling them to go to the strangers and destroy them.
Here, father, here!” he said, “take this—take it, and send for something immediately.” And he emptied his pockets on the table, the contents consisting of a dozen gold pieces, five or six five-franc pieces, and some smaller coin.
“No, I had a dozen.”
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