twelve

Noon on clocks

Twelve is the number between eleven and thirteen, represented as 12.

It serves as a common unit of measurement and grouping: a dozen eggs, twelve inches in a foot, twelve months in a year.

The clock struck twelve.

Twelve carries cultural weight in Western traditions—twelve apostles, twelve jurors, twelve days of Christmas.

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dozen

Group of twelve

hours · months · apostles · tribes · zodiac · jurors · octave · baker's dozen · duodecimal · year

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Opposites
quantity/numerical contrast

twelvezero

Numerical absence of quantity

none · nothing · one · infinity · countless

dozen counting systems

twelvethirteen

After twelve, before fourteen

baker's dozen · eleven

number type

twelvetwelfth

Ordinal for dozen

ordinal

Phrases
Family

twelfth, twelves, twelfths, twelveish, twelve-speed

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G