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There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.
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Meaning of "half-dozen" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HALF-DOZEN

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HALF-DOZEN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Half-Dozen is a determiner.
The determinant is a modifier that provides context to the noun, often in terms of quantity and possession.

WHAT DOES HALF-DOZEN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of half-dozen in the English dictionary

The definition of half-dozen in the dictionary is six or a group of six.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HALF-DOZEN

half-cut
half-day
half-dazed
half-dead
half-deaf
half-deck
half-deserted
half-digested
half-dollar
half-done
half-dressed
half-drowned
half-drunk
half-eaten
half-educated
half-empty
half-English
half-fare
half-fill
half-filled

WORDS THAT END LIKE HALF-DOZEN

a dime a dozen
baker´s dozen
Bozen
by the dozen
cozen
deepfrozen
dozen
frozen
half a dozen
half-frozen
lozen
nonfrozen
quick-frozen
refrozen
talk nineteen to the dozen
unfrozen

Synonyms and antonyms of half-dozen in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «half-dozen» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HALF-DOZEN

Find out the translation of half-dozen to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of half-dozen from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «half-dozen» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

半打
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

media docena
570 millions of speakers

English

half-dozen
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आधा दर्जन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نصف دزينة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Полдюжины
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

meia dúzia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হাফ ডজন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

demi-douzaine
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Setengah lusin
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ein halbes Dutzend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

半ダース
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

대여섯
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Setengah rolas
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nửa tá
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அரை டஜன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अर्धा डझन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yarım düzine
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mezza dozzina
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pół tuzina
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

півдюжини
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

jumătate de duzină
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μισή ντουζίνα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

half- dosyn
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

halvdussin
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

halvt dusin
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of half-dozen

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HALF-DOZEN»

The term «half-dozen» is quite widely used and occupies the 38.815 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HALF-DOZEN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «half-dozen» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «half-dozen» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about half-dozen

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2 QUOTES WITH «HALF-DOZEN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word half-dozen.
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Amar Bose
There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.
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Edward Dmytryk
Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HALF-DOZEN»

Discover the use of half-dozen in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to half-dozen and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Dirty Half Dozen: Six Radical Rules to Make ...
Everyone wants to have a nurturing, happy, working union with a spouse or loved one--but time after time, it can fail, fall flat, or not live up to expectations.
William Nagler, Anne Androff, 2001
2
Executions by the Half-dozen: The Pacification of Burma
On the third Ango-Burmese War, 1885.
Terence R. Blackburn, 2008
3
A Round Half-Dozen: Short Stories
In this collection of six short stories, the author portrays his homeland of Nigeria as a jungle, insane and inharmonious.
Adebayo Lamikanra, 2002
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A Hard-Boiled Half Dozen, the Red Daley Stories
Daniel Rowe. A Hard-Boiled Half Dozen The Red Daley Stories Daniel Rowe Professional REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK 1% fl,“ "2 "' "W 1m u can“! I,” "7 m A HARD-BOILED HALF DOZEN The Red Daley Stories Other books. Front Cover.
Daniel Rowe, 2009
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House Documents
2 00 One half dozen Mitchell's Primary Geography, at $3 75 . . . . . . . . . . 1 87 One half dozen Mitchell's Int. Geography, at $10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 00 One half dozen Mitchell's Atlas and Geography, at 810 50 . . . . . . 5 25 One Warner's Play .
United States House of Representatives, 1863
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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: ...
1 35 Three pairs brass candlesticks, at 77 cents 2 31 One half dozen brass snuffers 1 13 One half dozen rear lanterns 3 00 ( )ne pair soldering coppers 1 80 Two pairs steel shovel and tongs 2 70 One half dozen wallets 75 Two boxes 10 by 12 ...
United States. Congress. House, 1863
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The American Cotton Planter and the Soil of the South
For the beat and largest variety of Apples raised by the exhibitor, half dozen fruit as specimen, 2. For the best half dozen varieties specimens '10 as above, 5 8. For the best single variety, specimen as above, ' 5 4. For the best and largest ...
‎1858
8
Pihkal: a chemical love story
Phenethylamines I Have Known And Loved A unique document written by renowned psychopharmo -gist Shulgin and his partner which gives details of his research and investigations into the use of psychedelic drugs for the study of the human mind ...
Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin, 1991
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The Monthly Review
Od. per bottle the half dozen Tev«f Cordial Bill*, Is. 6d. or Or. the half doi. Farcy Balls, 6s. the half doien Strong Purging Balls, 2s. each, ot 10s. Cd. the] half dozen Mild Purging Balla, Is. 6d. each, or 8s. thej fialf dozen Strong Mercurial Purging ...
Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths, 1818
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Garner's Modern American Usage
C. A half dozen and half a dozen. For this noun phrase, either a half dozen or half a dozen is good form. Avoid ✳a half a dozen. When the phrase is used as an adjective, it becomes a phrasal adjective that should be hyphenated <a half- dozen ...
Bryan Garner, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HALF-DOZEN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term half-dozen is used in the context of the following news items.
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Comic-Con and the Eventification of Hollywood - ScreenCrush
People have seen Superman onscreen a half-dozen times already, but they've never seen him fight Batman before. That's an event. The poster ... «ScreenCrush, Jul 15»
2
One killed, several missing in Kentucky flooding: local media
(Reuters) - One person was killed and half-dozen others were reported missing late on Monday in flash flooding triggered by heavy rain in ... «WTVB, Jul 15»
3
Personal shopping site Scratch raises $3.6 million seed round …
A shopper reached out within minutes, and a half-dozen gift ideas arrived in just a few hours. Zisow, an alum of CustomMade and the McKinsey ... «BetaBoston, Jul 15»
4
6 Emmy longshots I'm betting on: Steve Buscemi, Michelle Dockery …
The half-dozen contenders below all have lowly 100/1 combined odds at Gold Derby, which means I'll earn more points if I predict them and ... «GoldDerby, Jul 15»
5
Discover a Hidden Champagne Room in London - Bloomberg …
Fortunately there are plenty of other choices, including a half-dozen Champagnes by the glass, ranging from Jacquesson Cuvée No. 737 at ... «Bloomberg, Jul 15»
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Search and rescue plane replacement taking too long, says Jack …
The Canadian military uses 13 older model C-130 Hercules aircraft in a search and rescue role, along with a half-dozen even older Buffalo ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
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Fire In Bloomfield Office Building Mostly Out - Hartford Courant
BLOOMFIELD – Firefighters from more than a half-dozen communities are at the scene of a fire in a commercial building. The fire at 34 Jerome ... «Hartford Courant, Jul 15»
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Officer hurt while breaking up 20-person fight outside Cambridge …
The Cambridge men who were arrested now face a half-dozen charges between the two of them. The 27-year-old faces charges of cocaine ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
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Louisiana's disaster declaration approved - Bayoubuzz.com
... Louisiana's request for a disaster declaration for the Red River flooding that caused damage across a half-dozen parishes in the last month. «Bayoubuzz, Jul 15»
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Historic Places: A Little Town with a Lot of History | Kingsport Times …
It's just one of a half-dozen sites that recollect the era in Big Stone Gap, a small town in Wise County, Va., that was the place to be during that ... «Kingsport Times News, Jul 15»

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