| 单词 | dozen |
| 释义 | dozen (once / 90 pages) nadj A dozen is twelve. If you buy a dozen doughnuts for six people, everyone will get to eat two of them. When you buy a dozen of something, you'll end up with twelve items. Your cat might, amazingly, have a dozen kittens, leading you to make a dozen phone calls trying to find homes for them all. Sometimes people use the word dozens to generically mean "a whole lot," as when you gasp, "There are dozens of seagulls sitting on my car!" Dozen has a Latin root, duodecim, "twelve." WORD FAMILYdozen: dozens USAGE EXAMPLESNarrow your list down to half a dozen candidates and call them. Wall Street Journal(Jan 01, 2017) On Sunday, it claimed an attack by five suicide bombers in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, killing eight people and wounding nearly two dozen. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Intrepid to the galleries of the Brooklyn Museum and to dozens of more traditional spaces. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1n the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one Syn|Hypo|Hyper 12, XII, twelve boxcars (usually plural) an expression used when two dice are thrown and both come up showing six spots large integer an integer equal to or greater than ten 2adj denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units Syn 12, twelve, xii cardinal being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order |
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