dozen

  1. Noun.  (countable) A set of twelve.
  2. Noun.  (context, as plural only) 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.
  3. Noun.  (metallurgy) An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.

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