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The correct spelling is dozens.
How to pronounce dozens
noun
Say it like: Doz-ens
The correct spelling is dozens. A set of twelve. For example: "Can I have a dozen eggs, please?"
Usage Examples
“Can I have a dozen eggs, please?”
“There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page.”
Definition
noun
- 1.A set of twelve.
- 2.(as plural only, always followed by of) 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.
- 3.An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
- 4.(usually with "the") A verbal game in which two or more people exchange witty insults.
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