See dozens on Wiktionary
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "noun form"
},
"expansion": "dozens",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "dozen"
}
],
"glosses": [
"plural of dozen"
],
"id": "en-dozens-en-noun-AFEMFusU",
"links": [
[
"dozen",
"dozen#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"plural"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-dozens.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/36/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-dozens.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-dozens.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/36/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-dozens.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-dozens.wav.ogg"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Dozens (game)",
"dozens"
],
"word": "dozens"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "p"
},
"expansion": "dozens pl (plural only)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "African-American Vernacular English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "26 74",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 59",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English pluralia tantum",
"parents": [
"Pluralia tantum",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "13 87",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "5 95",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2013, Lewis R. Gordon, Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought, page 34:",
"text": "[…] black communities, this “snap” or example of the “dozens” (the clever form of insult also known as signifying and dissin') appears: “Your father's so black that when he falls down, people hop over him for fear of falling in.”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A verbal game in which two or more people exchange witty insults."
],
"hyponyms": [
{
"word": "dirty dozens"
}
],
"id": "en-dozens-en-noun-d7aCC8aG",
"links": [
[
"verbal",
"verbal"
],
[
"game",
"game"
],
[
"exchange",
"exchange"
],
[
"witty",
"witty"
],
[
"insult",
"insult"
]
],
"qualifier": "African-American Vernacular",
"raw_glosses": [
"(usually with \"the\", African-American Vernacular) A verbal game in which two or more people exchange witty insults."
],
"tags": [
"plural",
"plural-only",
"usually",
"with-definite-article"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-dozens.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/36/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-dozens.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-dozens.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/36/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-dozens.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-dozens.wav.ogg"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Dozens (game)",
"dozens"
],
"word": "dozens"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English noun forms",
"English nouns",
"English pluralia tantum",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "noun form"
},
"expansion": "dozens",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "dozen"
}
],
"glosses": [
"plural of dozen"
],
"links": [
[
"dozen",
"dozen#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"plural"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-dozens.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/36/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-dozens.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-dozens.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/36/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-dozens.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-dozens.wav.ogg"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Dozens (game)",
"dozens"
],
"word": "dozens"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English noun forms",
"English nouns",
"English pluralia tantum",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "p"
},
"expansion": "dozens pl (plural only)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"African-American Vernacular English",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2013, Lewis R. Gordon, Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought, page 34:",
"text": "[…] black communities, this “snap” or example of the “dozens” (the clever form of insult also known as signifying and dissin') appears: “Your father's so black that when he falls down, people hop over him for fear of falling in.”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A verbal game in which two or more people exchange witty insults."
],
"hyponyms": [
{
"word": "dirty dozens"
}
],
"links": [
[
"verbal",
"verbal"
],
[
"game",
"game"
],
[
"exchange",
"exchange"
],
[
"witty",
"witty"
],
[
"insult",
"insult"
]
],
"qualifier": "African-American Vernacular",
"raw_glosses": [
"(usually with \"the\", African-American Vernacular) A verbal game in which two or more people exchange witty insults."
],
"tags": [
"plural",
"plural-only",
"usually",
"with-definite-article"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-dozens.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/36/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-dozens.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-dozens.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/36/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-dozens.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-dozens.wav.ogg"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Dozens (game)",
"dozens"
],
"word": "dozens"
}
Download raw JSONL data for dozens meaning in All languages combined (2.8kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.