TWO DOZEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does two dozen mean? 

• TWO DOZEN (noun)
  The noun TWO DOZEN has 1 sense:

1. the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-three and one

  Familiarity information: TWO DOZEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TWO DOZEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-three and one

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

24; twenty-four; two dozen; XXIV

Hypernyms ("two dozen" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

Using data from over 18,000 patients, scientists have identified more than two dozen genetic risk factors involved in Parkinson’s disease, including six that had not been previously reported.

(NIH scientists find six new genetic risk factors for Parkinson’s, NIH)

Kiziltan's group tracked the movement of two dozen pulsars and used computer simulations to model the cluster to track down their black-hole candidate.

(Elusive Middleweight Black Hole Found at Center of Giant Star Cluster, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden.

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

As a result, only about two dozen galactic stellar black holes have been well identified and measured.

(Unpredicted stellar black hole discovered by astronomers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The technique has proved so successful that Hersam and his team now hold two dozen pending or issued patents.

(Materials for the next generation of electronics and photovoltaics, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

National Institutes of Health scientists and collaborators at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, have detected abnormal prion protein in the skin of nearly two dozen people who died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).

(NIH scientists and collaborators find infectious prion protein in skin of CJD patients, National Institutes of Health)

There’s twenty-six of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen for the market.’

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