English-Spanish translations for dozen

• docena
  Encontré docenas y docenas de fallos en materia de higiene alimentaria. I found dozens of basic food hygiene failings.
  En estos momentos -mientras yo hablo- seguramente hay docenas y docenas de barcos en la misma situación. As I speak, I am sure there are dozens and dozens of ships in the same situation.
  También hay una docena en Israel. There are also a dozen in Israel.
• decenas
  Por lo demás, la Comisión de Empleo y Asuntos Sociales dedicó mucho tiempo a las enmiendas. Había decenas y decenas de ellas. There were dozens and dozens of amendments, a large number of which have been resolved.
  De hecho, se habló de cientos o, incluso, de algunas decenas. In fact they reported hundreds, or even dozens.
  Estas personas permanecen en fila durante horas, decenas de horas. These people queue for long hours, for dozens of hours.

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