Difference between Dozen and Twelve

What is the difference between Dozen and Twelve?

Dozen as a noun is a set of twelve. while Twelve as a noun is a group of twelve items.

Dozen

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A set of twelve. 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. An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.

Example sentence: Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Twelve

Part of speech: numeral

Definition: The cardinal number occurring after eleven and before thirteen, represented in Roman numerals as XII and in Arabic numerals as 12.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A group of twelve items.

Example sentence: A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

We hope you now know whether to use Dozen or Twelve in your sentence.

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