half a dozen

Noun

Meaning

the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

half-a-dozen

Synonyms

sise six sixer semester sextet vi hexad sestet 6 sextuplet nonillion Captain Hicks

Hypernyms

figure digit

Examples

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. Lope de Vega

I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws. S. J. Perelman

Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue. Sinclair Lewis

It's like exchanging six for half a dozen. Portuguese Proverb

Six of one, and half a dozen of the other. Italian Proverb

Six of one and half a dozen of the other. English Proverb

Close letter words and terms

half a half a brain half a century half a fireplace half a fortnight half a gale