TWELVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does twelve mean? 

• TWELVE (noun)
  The noun TWELVE has 1 sense:

1. the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one

  Familiarity information: TWELVE used as a noun is very rare.

• TWELVE (adjective)
  The adjective TWELVE has 1 sense:

1. denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units

  Familiarity information: TWELVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TWELVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

12; dozen; twelve; XII

Hypernyms ("twelve" is a kind of...):

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "twelve"):

boxcars ((usually plural) an expression used when two dice are thrown and both come up showing six spots)

• TWELVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units

Synonyms:

12; dozen; twelve; xii

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

 Context examples 

If you like it, and think it is worth the price—twelve thousand—let me know and it is yours.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was a quarter to twelve.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Jupiter entered on December 2 and is set to stay twelve months, until December 19, 2020.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

So he laid himself down, and sleep fell upon him unawares, so that he did not wake up till the clock was striking a quarter to twelve.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

'Just the thing,' said the girl, and ran to get twelve fine ones from her garden.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

You make me feel as I have not felt these twelve months.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“I’ll give you a thousand for him, sir, a thousand, sir—twelve hundred, sir.”

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Just after I had taken my place I heard a distant clock strike twelve, and in time came one and two.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

At this point, where my pipe is now resting, a county constable was on duty from twelve to six.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)