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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers" [syn: tons, dozens, heaps, lots, piles, scores, stacks, loads, rafts, slews, wads, oodles, gobs, scads, lashings]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dozen Doz"en, n.; pl. Dozen (before another noun), Dozens. [OE. doseine, dosein, OF. doseine, F. douzaine, fr. douze twelve, fr. L. duodecim; duo two + decem ten. See Two, Ten, and cf. Duodecimal.] 1. A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows. ``Some six or seven dozen of Scots.'' ``A dozen of shirts to your back.'' ``A dozen sons.'' ``Half a dozen friends.'' --Shak. 2. An indefinite small number. --Milton. A baker's dozen, thirteen; -- called also a long dozen.