dozen

Betekenis (English)

  1. A set of twelve.
  2. 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. The number twelve.

Frekwensie

B2
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/ˈdʌzən/
Etimologie (English)

In summary

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”).

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