Synonyms of dozen

dozen 1 of 2

noun (1)

ˈdə-zᵊn 

as in ton

a considerable amount

dozens of new songs were auditioned and rejected

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ton
• loads
• plenty
• slew
• bunch
• hundred
• lot
• deal
• pile
• chunk
• quantity
• raft
• wealth
• stack
• myriad
• bundle
• abundance
• thousands
• all kinds (of)
• truckload
• yard
• boatload
• bushel
• fistful
• reams
• good deal
• pack
• carload
• bucket
• quite a bit
• gobs
• heap
• scads
• sheaf
• shipload
• volume
• multiplicity
• profusion
• mountain
• pot
• basketful
• barrel
• spate
• peck
• store
• passel
• mass
• oodles
• much
• plenitude
• wad
• plateful
• lashings
• sight
• mess
• potful
• score
• plentitude
• million
• multitude
• flood
• plethora
• rash
• surplus
• plague
• excess
• bevy
• zillion
• surfeit
• host
• sea
• epidemic
• swarm
• crowd
• overabundance
• horde
• flock
• bonanza
• embarrassment
• deluge
• oversupply
• overkill
• throng
• gazillion
• overage
• army
• superabundance
• legion
• overflow
• drove
• superfluity
• herd
• press
• cram
• redundancy
• jillion
• mob
• crush
• kazillion
• overmuch
• trillion

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• handful
• ounce
• taste
• spot
• bit
• sprinkling
• peanuts
• suspicion
• touch
• grain
• hint
• strain
• shade
• mouthful
• pittance
• ray
• molecule
• sprinkle
• shadow
• trace
• pinch
• particle
• mite
• dram
• fragment
• ace
• speck
• glimmer
• atom
• streak
• tad
• scrap
• scruple
• lick
• dot
• smattering
• whit
• nip
• dab
• mote
• modicum
• shred
• iota
• granule
• jot
• section
• scintilla
• crumb
• little
• tittle
• portion
• drop
• smidgen
• piece
• dash
• shot
• morsel
• driblet
• fleck
• absence
• flyspeck
• shortage
• lack
• nubbin
• smatter
• paucity
• scarcity
• poverty
• want
• dearth
• famine
• deficiency
• deficit
• insufficiency
• inadequacy
• scarceness
• undersupply
• scantiness
• meagerness
• scantness
• skimpiness

dozens

2 of 2

noun (2)

variants or dozen

plural of dozen

as in hundreds

a considerable amount

dozens of new songs were auditioned and rejected

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hundreds
• loads
• tons
• piles
• bunches
• lots
• chunks
• slews
• deals
• quantities
• rafts
• bundles
• plenties
• stacks
• myriads
• masses
• wealths
• abundances
• scads
• all kinds (of)
• truckloads
• heaps
• reams
• boatloads
• buckets
• bushels
• quite a bit
• yards
• oodles
• volumes
• carloads
• gobs
• mountains
• fistfuls
• shiploads
• thousands
• stores
• packs
• barrels
• wads
• sheaves
• pots
• sights
• good deals
• pecks
• multiplicities
• basketfuls
• platefuls
• lashings
• scores
• much
• profusions
• messes
• potfuls
• plenitudes
• millions
• spates
• multitudes
• plentitudes
• floods
• passels
• plagues
• rashes
• epidemics
• excesses
• surpluses
• swarms
• hosts
• hordes
• zillions
• seas
• flocks
• embarrassments
• legions
• throngs
• redundancies
• trillions
• crowds
• bonanzas
• armies
• overages
• overflows
• plethoras
• overmuch
• deluges
• herds
• superfluities
• droves
• overabundances
• gazillions
• surfeits
• mobs
• presses
• oversupplies
• superabundances
• crushes
• overkills
• jillions
• bevies
• kazillions
• crams

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• handfuls
• fragments
• spots
• shadows
• strains
• molecules
• ounces
• shades
• bits
• tastes
• particles
• atoms
• grains
• hints
• suspicions
• peanuts
• touches
• traces
• rays
• specks
• streaks
• mites
• dots
• mouthfuls
• drams
• granules
• licks
• scraps
• glimmers
• aces
• shreds
• scruples
• sprinkles
• dabs
• flecks
• pinches
• sections
• nips
• crumbs
• motes
• pieces
• pittances
• portions
• sprinklings
• shots
• little
• drops
• dashes
• driblets
• smidgens
• morsels
• smatterings
• flyspecks
• shortages
• iotas
• tittles
• scintillas
• smatters
• modicums
• jots
• nubbins
• lacks
• absences
• whits
• deficiencies
• wants
• scarcities
• deficits
• famines
• inadequacies
• insufficiencies
• poverties
• paucities
• dearths
• undersupplies

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of dozen

Noun

The bids that arrived by Tuesday’s deadline followed discussions in recent weeks between the NBA and more than a dozen existing European basketball teams about potential inclusion. —Andrew Greif, NBC news, 2 Apr. 2026

More than half the orders were for Honduras, Ecuador or Uganda, with the rest scattered among nearly three dozen other countries. —Molly A. Wallace, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026

Noun

Inside the building, more than a dozen detainees did the same. —Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026

Campaign for Working Families is one of dozens of local sites participating in the IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program — better known as VITA. —Joshua Sidorowicz, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026

Phrases Containing dozen

• a dime a dozen