English-Danish translations for dozen

• dusin
  Han har mere end et dusin stedfortrædere. He has more than a dozen deputies.
  Jeg skal lade være med at tale om de flere dusin ofre hver eneste dag. I shall not speak about the dozens of people killed each day.
  Siden 2000 har der været mindst et dusin af den slags sager. Since the year 2000, there have been at least a dozen such cases.
• tylvt

Definition of dozen

• A set of twelve
• 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
• An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight

Synonyms

• a lot
• heap
• hundred
• load
• lot
• many
• million
• score
• scad
• thousand

Examples

• 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.
• There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page.
• There were dozens and dozens of applicants before the job was posted.

Related words

• dozens
• privatdozent
• six of one, half a dozen of the other
• baker's dozen
• dime a dozen
• long dozen
• half dozen
• half a dozen
• devil's dozen