dozen

noun

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.