dozen

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A set of twelve.
    — Can I have a dozen eggs, please?
  2. A member of a K-pop group who has no talent. derogatory
  3. 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.
    — There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page.
  4. An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
    — The dozen as a measure for iron ore remained almost completely constant at 12 cwts. during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
  5. The number twelve.

词形变化

dozens plural dozen plural doz alternative dozens plural doz alternative

词汇关系

近义词
a lot of heap of hundred of load of lot of many million of score of scad of thousand of
反义词
few
衍生词
baker's dozen banker's dozen Botany Bay dozen buzzin' dozen by the dozen cheaper by the dozen daily dozen decimal dozen devil's dozen dime a dozen double dozen dozenal dozens dozens offer dozenth half a dozen half dozen half-dozen long dozen nineteen to the dozen short dozen six of one, half dozen of the other ten to the dozen thirteen to the dozen twenty to the dozen two-dozen
相关词
gross

词源

词源 1
From Middle English dozen, dozein, doseyne, from Old French dozaine (“a group of twelve”) (Modern French douzaine), from doze (“twelve”) + -aine (“-ish”), from Latin duodecim (“twelve”) (from duo (“two”) + decem (“ten”)) + -ana (“-ish”).
词源 2
From a deliberate misspelling of doesn't, originally referring to someone who "dozen sing, dozen rap, dozen do anything."
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