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Doyen vs Dozen - What's the difference?

doyen | dozen |

As nouns the difference between doyen and dozen

is that doyen is most senior representative of a certain group, usually in diplomacy, academia or performing arts, doyen while dozen is (countable) a set of twelve.

doyen

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A commander in charge of ten men.
  • The senior, or eldest male member of a group.
  • * 1997 , Thomas Swan, The Cezanne Chase , page 171,
  • At every turn, Collyers's aggressive new management in London was out-maneuvering and out promoting the double doyens of the rarefied art auction world. Old-timers at Collyers referred to Christie's and Sotheby's as “the Cow and the Sow,” lumping them together in frequent attitudes of disdain, in an attempt to make up for decades of being the brunt of bad jokes.
  • * 2000 , Steve Fuller, Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times , page 383,
  • Conant's sense of science's world-historic mission did not especially endear him to Harvard's doyens , most of whom still operated with a liberal arts college model of the university in which the humanities reigned supreme and even the natural sciences were treated more as teaching than research subjects.
  • * 2007 , Vanina Bouté, Political Hierarchical Processes among Some Highlanders of Laos'', François Robinne, Mandy Sadan (editors), ''Social Dynamics in the Highlands of Southeast Asia , page 189,
  • On the domain level, two doyens', called “Lords of the Land” were entitled to some further specific prerogatives, including the right to lead rituals on behalf of all the villages of the domain (i.e. the domain of the clan of the ' doyen and, therefore, the clan considered the founder of the oldest village).
  • (colloquial) A leading light, or exemplar of a particular practice or movement.
  • * 1991 , Arif Dirlik, Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution , page 129,
  • Unlike the latter, however, Shifu's seriousness allowed no compromise; his criticism of Zhang ji even brought him into conflict with Wu Zhihui, one of the doyens of anarchism in China.
  • * 2008 July 3, Amanda Schaffer, “The Sex Difference Evangelists”, part 3: “ Mars, Venus, Babies, and Hormones]”, in [[w:Slate (magazine), Slate] ,
  • In an interview, even , another doyen of sex-difference claims, offered up some caution.
  • * 2011 , Maitrii Aung-Thwin, The Return of the Galon King: History, Law, and Rebellion in Colonial Burma , page 199,
  • For these doyens of the field, the Burmese conceptual landscape was a sophisticated and complex array of beliefs, exhibiting the ability of communities to adapt, appropriate, and reshape external influences throughout history.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    dozen

    English

    Noun

    (dozens)
  • (countable) A set of twelve.
  • Can I have a dozen eggs, please?
    I ordered two dozen doughnuts.
    There shouldn't be more than two dozen Christmas cards left to write.
    Pack the shirts in dozens , please.
  • 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.
    There were dozens''' and '''dozens of applicants before the job was posted.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , author=Lee A. Groat , title=Gemstones , volume=100, issue=2, page=128 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.}}
  • (metallurgy) An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
  • * 1957 , H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , p. 139
  • The dozen as a measure for iron ore remained almost completely constant at 12 cwts. during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

    Synonyms

    * a great deal of, a lot of, heaps of, hundreds of, loads of, lots of, many, millions of, scores of, scads of, thousands of

    Antonyms

    * few

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from dozen) * baker's dozen * banker's dozen * Botany Bay dozen * cheaper by the dozen * daily dozen * dime a dozen * double dozen * doz (abbreviation ) * dozenal * dozenth * half dozen * long dozen * nineteen to the dozen * * twenty to the dozen

    See also

    * gross