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Dozen

Noun

Definitions

1.NounA set of twelve.
"Can I have a dozen eggs, please?; I ordered two dozen doughnuts.; There are hundreds of people from each continent in the convention but only a few dozen came from Africa.; Pack the shirts in dozens, please."
2.NounA 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."
3.NounAn old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
4.NounThe number twelve.
5.NounA member of a K-pop group who has no talent.
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