amerikai:
brit:
1. A set of twelve.
Can I have a dozen eggs, please?
2. (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.
There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page.
3. An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.