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half a dozen
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Princeton's WordNet
six, 6, VI, sixer, sise, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, sextet, sestet, sextuplet, hexadnoun
the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
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half a dozen
Half a dozen generally refers to the quantity of six, as a dozen is typically defined as twelve.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of half a dozen in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of half a dozen in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of half a dozen in a Sentence
A colleague out for lunch messaged to say there had been an incident on London Bridge and he was unable to cross back over the river. I went straight to the window and saw hundreds of people running off the bridge down Tooley Street, people looked so panicked. Stevie Beer was haunting. There were at least half a dozen police cars and halted buses. Our building is now on lockdown, but we've not been given any concrete information.
If one or two people control all the traits, there really isn't a lot of competition there, if you have half a dozen strong players it keeps them trying to provide the best for you and trying to get your business.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two, nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
It is hard to overstate the importance of Rome, from Mount Aventine, there are no more than half a dozen major works by Turner left in private hands and this work must rank as one of the very finest.
You can read National Right to Life, you know, a half a dozen different ways, so National Right to Life's like throwing out a bunch of confetti -- who knows what National Right to Life means.
Translations for half a dozen
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- نصف درزنArabic
- mitja dotzenaCatalan, Valencian
- نیم دوجینPersian
- demi-douzaineFrench
- setengah dozenMalay
- meia dúziaPortuguese
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