centinaio — meaning in English

English meaning

• buck noun An adult male deer or similar animal.
• dozen noun A group of twelve.

Senses

centinaio is used for these senses in English:

• buck (US, slang) One hundred.
• dozen (as plural only, always followed by of) 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.

buck — full definition

1. noun An adult male deer or similar animal.
2. noun Informal, especially American, word for a dollar.
3. verb Of a horse, to jump with an arched back and kick out the hind legs, often to throw off a rider.
4. verb To resist or oppose something strongly, especially a trend or authority.

dozen — full definition

1. noun A group of twelve.
2. noun An unspecified but fairly large number; many (used loosely, not literally twelve).

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