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Dozens   /dˈəzənz/   Listen
noun
Dozen  n.  (pl. dozen (before another noun), dozens)  
1.
A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows. "Some six or seven dozen of Scots." "A dozen of shirts to your back." "A dozen sons." "Half a dozen friends."
2.
An indefinite small number.
A baker's dozen, thirteen; called also a long dozen.





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"Dozens" Quotes from Famous Books



... sleigh it is long, and deep, and wide; It will carry a host of things, While dozens of drums hang over the side, With the sticks sticking under the strings: And yet not the sound of a drum is heard, Not a bugle blast is blown, As he mounts to the chimney-top like a bird, And drops to the hearth ...
— Christmas - Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse • Various
... the forms of life, or first change the forms and then struggle, using peaceful propaganda or terrorism? So we go on disputing while they kill; they do not dispute—they know their business; they don't care whether dozens, hundreds of men perish—and what men! No; that the best should perish is just what they want. Yes, Herzen said that when the Decembrists were withdrawn from circulation the average level of our society sank. I should think so, indeed. Then Herzen himself and his fellows were withdrawn; now is ...
— Resurrection • Count Leo Tolstoy
... for a blue bottle fly, And she wrote a note to a pumpkin pie; She makes all the oysters wear emerald rings, And does dozens of other nonsensible things. Oh! the scatterbrained, shatterbrained lady so grand, Her Royal Skyhighness ...
— The Jingle Book • Carolyn Wells
... lady you, and I, and Daisy, and baby met in the park yesterday. You said it was rude to kiss her, and she did not mind. She gave me dozens ...
— How It All Came Round • L. T. Meade
... the campaign, for the enemy at least, in a blaze of glory, so to speak. Dozens of speakers for both causes were about the street corners and in the city ...
— Twelve Men • Theodore Dreiser


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