noun
Meaning 1
Thirteen; a group of thirteen.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
baker's dozen
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˌbeɪkəz ˈdʌzən/
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Received-Pronunciation: [- ˈdʌzn̩]
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General-American: /ˌbeɪkəɹz ˈdʌzən/
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General-American: [ˌbeɪkɚz ˈdʌzn̩]
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rhymes with -ʌzən
noun
Meaning 2
A cousin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Cockney, slang
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A solitaire card game, starting with 13 piles of 4 cards each.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: card-games, games
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noun
Meaning 4
the cardinal number that is the sum of twelve and one
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: thirteen, 13, XIII, long dozen
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: large integer
History
Etymology
Possibly from the former practice of bakers adding a thirteenth loaf of bread to a batch of twelve loaves in order to avoid punishment for accidentally selling underweight bread.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: дяволска дузина (djavolska duzina) — group of thirteen
- Catalan: dotzena de frare — group of thirteen
- Czech: čertův tucet — group of thirteen
- Danish: bagerdusin — group of thirteen
- Dutch: bakkersdozijn — group of thirteen
- Dutch: duivelsdozijn — group of thirteen
- Estonian: kuraditosin — group of thirteen
- Finnish: piruntusina — group of thirteen
- French: treizaine — group of thirteen
- Galician: ducia de frade — group of thirteen
- German: Bäckerdutzend — group of thirteen
- Hindi: नानबाई का दर्जन (nānbāī kā darjan) — group of thirteen
- Irish: dosaen báicéara — group of thirteen
- Korean: 베이커의 다스 (beikeo-ui daseu) — group of thirteen
- Macedonian: пекарска дузина (pekarska duzina) — group of thirteen
- Manx: dussan liauyr — group of thirteen
- Norwegian Bokmål: bakerdusin — group of thirteen
- Portuguese: dúzia de frade — group of thirteen
- Portuguese: dúzia de treze — group of thirteen
- Russian: чёртова дю́жина (čórtova djúžina) — group of thirteen
- Spanish: docena del fraile — group of thirteen
- Ukrainian: чо́ртова дю́жина (čórtova djúžyna) — group of thirteen
- Welsh: dwsin pobydd — group of thirteen