Definition of Dozen

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Definition of Dozen
	Dozen of Dozen A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows. An indefinite small number. Related Definitions: An, Before, Collection, Dozen, Indefinite, Number, Of, Or, Set, Small, Substantive, Tale, The, Twelve, Which, With, Without

Dozen Quotations

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
Vince Lombardi

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
Louis L'Amour

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
Aldo Leopold

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
Nikita Khrushchev

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.
Marilyn vos Savant

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.
Marilyn vos Savant

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.
Marilyn vos Savant

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
Malcolm Forbes

Dozen Translations

dozen in Afrikaans is dosyn
dozen in Danish is dusin
dozen in Dutch is twaalftal, dozijn
dozen in French is douzaine, tutoyer
dozen in German is Dutzend
dozen in Hungarian is tucat
dozen in Italian is dozzina
dozen in Norwegian is dusin
dozen in Spanish is docena, tutear
dozen in Swedish is dussin

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