°(as plural only always followed by
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.
"There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page."
synonyms:
a great deal, a lot, heap, hundred
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, load, lot, many, million, score, scad, thousand