onlarca olan şey

Turkish - English

Definition of onlarca olan şey in Turkish English dictionary

dozen

An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight

The dozen as a measure for iron ore remained almost completely constant at 12 cwts. during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

A set of twelve

Pack the shirts in dozens, please.

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 were dozens and dozens of applicants before the job was posted.

{n} twelve

{a} relating to twelve

{i} twelve items, group of twelve

If you have a dozen things, you have twelve of them. You will be able to take ten dozen bottles free of duty through customs His chicken eggs sell for $22 a dozen

You can refer to a group of approximately twelve things or people as a dozen. You can refer to a group of approximately six things or people as half a dozen. In half a dozen words, he had explained the bond that linked them The riot left four people dead and several dozen injured

Dozens 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

The plural form is dozen after a number, or after a word or expression referring to a number, such as `several' or `a few'

the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one

An indefinite small number

denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units

A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows

emphasis If you refer to dozens of things or people, you are emphasizing that there are very many of them. a storm which destroyed dozens of homes and buildings. You can also use dozens as a pronoun. Just as revealing are Mr Johnson's portraits, of which there are dozens

Hyphenation

on·lar·ca o·lan şey