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# dozen

«dozen» in Mova's school dictionary: **twelve: a dozen eggs is 12 eggs** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (dozen, dozens)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A dozen is twelve: a dozen eggs is 12 eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dozen/#m1)

2) Dozens means a lot, many: «dozens of people». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dozen/#m2)

3) A dozen can also mean twelve strokes of the cane given as a punishment at school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dozen/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a group of twelve: «N dozen» is N × 12; eggs, rolls and cookies are often sold by the dozen; «half a dozen» is 6; a «baker's dozen» is 13; phrases: «a dozen», «half a dozen», «dozens of», «by the dozen»

### examples

- Mum buys 3 dozen eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dozen/#x1)
- Mum buys nine and a half dozen eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dozen/#x2)
- A baker made 2 dozen rolls and sold 15. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dozen/#x3)
- A dozen eggs come in one box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dozen/#x4)
- Half a dozen is six. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dozen/#x5)
- Dozens of birds sat on the wires. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dozen/#x6)
- A baker's dozen is 13, one extra for luck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dozen/#x7)
- We need two dozen cupcakes for the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dozen/#x8)
- I would rather lose a dozen cherry trees than that you should tell one false-hood." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dozen/#x9)

### note

«A dozen is twelve.» «N dozen» is N × 12; «half a dozen» is 6; «N and a half dozen» is N × 12 + 6. After a number, say «3 dozen», not «3 dozens».

### In the corpora

- [Job hunting means searching adverts and sending applications, often dozens before getting anywhere; many get no reply at all.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/5/)
- [Falling is part of learning to dance, and many viral videos took the dancer dozens of tries.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/8/)
- [Modern hens can lay around three hundred eggs a year, while wild junglefowl lay only a few dozen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/5/)
- [Some cats have extra toes, and Ernest Hemingway's old house in Florida still has dozens of cats, many with six toes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/327-a-kitten-at-home-litter-trays-scratching-posts-and-play/13/)
- [Your phone holds dozens of metals, among them lithium, cobalt, copper and rare earth elements.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dozen» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dozen/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.