English-Italian translations for dozen

• dozzina
  In Israele i prigionieri sono una dozzina. There are also a dozen in Israel.
  Fra le varie difficoltà che si presentano ne rileverei una mezza dozzina. A number of difficulties arise in this and I shall highlight half a dozen:
  In una dozzina o più paesi si sono verificate alcune rivolte, e peggioreranno. In a dozen or more countries there have been riots, and these will get worse.
• centinaio
  Le flotte di Grimsby sono composte da poche decine di pescherecci, quando una volta ce n'erano un centinaio. Fleets at Grimsby are a few dozen fishing boats, where once there were a hundred.
• migliaio

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