dozen
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Synonyms & Antonyms for dozen
Synonyms
abundance, barrel, basketful, boatload, bucket, bunch, bundle, bushel, carload, chunk, deal, fistful, gobs, good deal, heap, hundred, lashings (also lashins) [chiefly British], loads, lot, mass, mess, mountain, much, multiplicity, myriad, oodles, pack, passel, peck, pile, plateful, plenitude, plentitude, plenty, pot, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, sheaf, shipload, sight, slew, spate, stack, store, ton, truckload, volume, wad, wealth, yard
Antonyms
ace, bit, dab, dram, driblet, glimmer, handful, hint, lick, little, mite, mouthful, nip, ounce, peanuts, pinch, pittance, scruple, shade, shadow, smidgen (also smidgeon), speck, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, strain, streak, suspicion, tad, taste, touch, trace
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Indianapolis Fall Whiskey Tasting Festival Enjoy dozens of whiskey varieties and food and drink specials at 8 Seconds Saloon. — Chris Sims, Indianapolis Star, "Here are 32 September festivals to kick off your fall," 2 Sep. 2019 Craig Layman, an ecologist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh who has been conducting research on Abaco for the last dozen years, is expecting the worst for one of his long-term experiments. — David Malakoff, Science | AAAS, "As Hurricane Dorian bears down, researchers get ready," 31 Aug. 2019 Amy, in her early 20s, and her dozen friends have been among the many black-clad, masked young protesters who are part of Hong Kong’s biggest political movement since the 2014 pro-democracy Occupy protests. — Vivienne Chow, Quartz, "Hong Kong’s protesters are trying to break free from the “old seafood” generation," 27 Aug. 2019 Municipalities across America are getting ravaged by ransomware attacks, most recently a couple dozen cities in Texas. — Robert Hackett, Fortune, "Even After Capital One’s Breach, Don’t Doubt the Cloud—Cyber Saturday," 24 Aug. 2019 Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd, for instance, exists in a dozen unabridged versions: One, John Lee's (Tantor), is superb, and a couple, Nathaniel Parker's (Audible Studios) and Joe Jameson's (Dreamscape), are excellent if a little fast. — Dallas News, "Don't let a bad reader ruin your audiobook experience: Here are recordings to savor — and to avoid," 20 Aug. 2019 The votes followed a lengthy and often emotional administrative appeals hearing that further showcased the months-long rift between Mobile police and a handful of the city’s more than two dozen tow truck operators. — al, "Another round of suspensions against Mobile towing companies as city eyes ‘broken ordinance’," 20 Aug. 2019 Over the past 14 years, Carlile has sold out dozens of local concerts, playing everywhere from small clubs to the Basilica Block Party. — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, "Here’s what’s happening at the State Fair Grandstand – and some free stages, too," 17 Aug. 2019 Motherboard says contractors earning merely $12–$14 an hour are expected to transcribe and classify Cortana voice commands into more than two dozen topic areas, including gaming, email, communication, events, home automation, and media control. — Jay Peters, The Verge, "How low-paid Microsoft contractors train Cortana by listening to you," 17 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'dozen.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
