Usually means: Group or unit of twelve.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word DOZEN:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. dozen: Merriam-Webster
  2. dozen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dozen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dozen: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dozen: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dozen, dozen: Wordnik
  7. dozen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dozen: Wiktionary
  9. dozen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dozen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dozen: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dozen, dozen: Dictionary.com
  13. dozen: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dozen: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dozen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dozen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dozen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Dozen: Rhymezone
  19. dozen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dozen: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Dozen: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. dozen: FreeDictionary.org
  23. dozen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. dozen: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. dozen: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. dozen: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dozen: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dozen: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dozen: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dozen: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Dozen: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dozen)

▸ noun:  A set of twelve.
▸ noun:  (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.
▸ noun:  (metallurgy) An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
▸ noun:  (bingo) The number twelve.

Similar:
twelve, cardinal, xii, hundred, handful, three, four, thousand, five, twenty, more...

Opposite:
single, one, individual, solitary, lone

Types:
baker's dozen, long dozen, short dozen, gross, great gross, more...

Phrases:
two dozen, half dozen, Dirty Dozen, bakers dozen, baker's dozen, more...

Adjectives:
half, several, few, round, worth, even, per, daily, mere, dirty, bare


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Similar:
twelve, cardinal, xii, hundred, handful, three, four, thousand, five, twenty, more...

Opposite:
single, one, individual, solitary, lone

Types:
baker's dozen, long dozen, short dozen, gross, great gross, more...

Phrases:
two dozen, half dozen, Dirty Dozen, bakers dozen, baker's dozen, half a dozen, long dozen, a dime a dozen, daily dozen, a baker's dozen, a bakers dozen, devils dozen, dime a dozen, more...

Adjectives:
half, several, few, round, worth, even, per, daily, mere, dirty, bare



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