Usually means: A quantity consisting of twelve.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. twelve: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. twelve, the Twelve, the twelve: Merriam-Webster
  3. twelve, the Twelve: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. twelve: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. twelve: Collins English Dictionary
  6. twelve: Vocabulary.com
  7. Twelve, twelve, the twelve: Wordnik
  8. twelve: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. twelve: Wiktionary
  10. twelve: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. twelve: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. twelve: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. twelve, the twelve: Dictionary.com
  14. twelve: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. twelve: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Twelve (comic), The Twelve (comics), The Twelve (disambiguation), The Twelve (disciples), The Twelve (novel), The Twelve (poem), The Twelve, Twelve (Patti Smith album), Twelve (Street Fighter), Twelve (film), Twelve (novel), Twelve: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Twelve: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. twelve: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. twelve: Rhymezone
  20. twelve: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. twelve: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Twelve: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. twelve, the twelve: FreeDictionary.org
  24. twelve: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. The Twelve, twelve: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. The Twelve, twelve: Encyclopedia

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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. twelve: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. twelve: MATH SPOKEN HERE!

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. twelve, twelve: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. twelve: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A group of twelve items.
noun:  A twelve-bore gun.
noun:  (law, colloquial) A jury (normally composed of twelve persons).
noun:  (slang) The police; law enforcement, especially a narcotics officer.
noun:  (military slang, by ellipsis of twelve o'clock) Front (front side of something, position in front of something).

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