dozen
Pronunciation:
/ˈdʌzən/noun
Definitions
A set of twelve.
Example: Can I have a dozen eggs, please?
(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.
Example: There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page.
An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.