Associations to the word «Dozen»

Wiktionary

DOZEN, noun. (countable) A set of twelve.
DOZEN, 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.
DOZEN, noun. (metallurgy) An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.

Dictionary definition

DOZEN, noun. The cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one.
DOZEN, adjective. Denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats