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anglais > français
dozen
1. n. Douzaine. Groupe d'exactement douze unités.
A dozen eggs.
Une douzaine d'œufs.
Two dozen pencils.
Deux douzaines de crayons.
2. n. Dizaine, signifiant un nombre inexact.
A few dozen men.
Quelques dizaines d'hommes.
Dozens of people.
Des dizaines de gens.
anglais > anglais
dozen
1. n. A set of twelve.
Can I have a dozen eggs, please?
I ordered two dozen doughnuts.
There shouldn't be more than two dozen Christmas cards left to write.
Pack the shirts in dozens, please.
2. n. (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
There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page.
There were dozens and dozens of applicants before the job was posted.
3. n. (metallurgy) An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
français > anglais
douzaine
1. n-f. (a group of) twelve; dozen
2. n-f. about twelve

Exemples de phrases

She bought a dozen eggs.      Elle a acheté une douzaine d'œufs. Are these eggs sold by the dozen?      Ces œufs se vendent-ils à la douzaine ? We have a half-dozen eggs.      Nous avons une demie douzaine d'œufs. I've been there a dozen times.      J'y suis allé une douzaine de fois. We buy eggs by the dozen.      On achète les œufs à la douzaine.

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