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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
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.
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.
I passionately wanted to do these stories, and I became even more passionate about telling these stories at a time when the discourse, the debate about policing in America, has taken a sharp turn, police are being defined by a half a dozen incidents instead of being defined by the people that they really are.
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.
There are a half a dozen candidates, plus or minus a little bit, that I would put their names in a hat and draw one out and be really happy as a replacement to the president we have today.
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- نصف درزنArabic
- mitja dotzenaCatalan, Valencian
- نیم دوجینPersian
- demi-douzaineFrench
- setengah dozenMalay
- meia dúziaPortuguese
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