Definizione monolingua

dozen

dozen (plural dozen when used attributively, dozens otherwise)

1. (countable) A set of twelve.

   Can I have a dozen eggs, please?

   I ordered two dozen doughnuts.

   There shouldnt be more than two dozen Christmas cards left to write.

   Pack the shirts in dozens, please.

2. (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.

   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. (metallurgy) An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
   • 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 139

     The dozen as a measure for iron ore remained almost completely constant at 12 cwts. during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Definizione dizionario dozen

	dozzina
	twelve
	A set of twelve.

	centinaio
	dozens: a large number

	migliaio
	dozens: a large number

centinaia

Altri significati:

(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.

(metallurgy) An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.

(countable) A set of twelve.