denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units

One more that eleven; two and ten; twice six; a dozen.

The number next following eleven; the sum of ten and two, or of twice six; twelve units or objects; a dozen.

A symbol representing twelve units, as 12, or xii.

One more than eleven; four times three.

The number next after eleven; a dozen; a sign representing twelve units, as 12 or xii.

Ten and two.

The number next after eleven: the figures representing twelve.

The first number after eleven; two and ten; a dozen.

Twelve to dinner to- day, an' only me to do the cookin'. – Marcia Schuyler by Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

It was twelve o'clock at night before they were done! – Mount Music by E. Oe. Somerville and Martin Ross

" Twelve," said Mr. Cottle. – Fore! by Charles Emmett Van Loan

It was nearly twelve o'clock when Irene reached home. – After the Storm by T. S. Arthur

He glanced at his watch, and found that it wanted only a few minutes to twelve o'clock. – The Red Rat's Daughter by Guy Boothby

But if you struck twelve half the time, it would be enough. – Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber

In point of fact, it was between twelve and one o'clock when he did come in. – The Childerbridge Mystery by Guy Boothby

Twelve miles there and back! – Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner

And after the year of twelve months, he was of age thirty- three year and three months. – The-Travels-of-Sir-John-Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Twelve whole years lost! – The Royal Picture Alphabet by Luke Limner

This thing of meeting a man here at twelve o'clock is-" " Goodness!" – Her Weight in Gold by George Barr McCutcheon

" I heard this fellow here twelve years ago," said Blake. – Max by Katherine Cecil Thurston

And I haven't got any myself- except about twelve dollars. – The Awakening of Helena Richie by Margaret Deland

At twelve o'clock Wenaston came in. – The Outcaste by F. E. Penny

Do you not know that twelve years have passed by? – Stories from Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore

I commenced work when I was twelve years old, you know. – L'Assommoir by Emile Zola

Twelve hundred miles a minute! – Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 by Various

About a week ago, there remained in his hands but about twelve thousand livres. – Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson

It was nigh twelve o'clock then. – Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

You know now why, when you think of me, you think of a story I wrote twelve years ago. – Goat-Feathers by Ellis Parker Butler