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Definitions for threescore
ˈθriˈskɔr, -ˈskoʊrthree·score

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. threescoreadjective

    a set with 3 times 20 members

  2. sixty, 60, lx, threescoreadjective

    being ten more than fifty

Wiktionary

  1. threescorenoun

    Sixty. (60)

    And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand and seven hundred and threescore; very able men for the work of the service of the house of God. - 1 Chronicles 9:13

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Threescoreadjective

    Thrice twenty; sixty.

    Etymology: three and score.

    Threescore and ten I can remember well. William Shakespeare.

    Their lives before the flood were abbreviated after, and contracted unto hundreds and threescores. Brown.

    By chace our long-liv’d fathers earn’d their food;
    Toil strung the nerves, and purify’d the blood:
    But we their sons, a pamper’d race of men,
    Are dwindl’d down to threescore years and ten. Dryden.

Wikipedia

  1. Threescore

    60 (sixty) (Listen ) is the natural number following 59 and preceding 61. Being three times 20, it is called threescore in older literature (kopa in Slavic, Schock in Germanic).

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  1. threescore

    Threescore refers to sixty (60), as a "score" is a unit of count equal to twenty (20), so three score is three times twenty. It's an old-fashioned term that is often found in historical and biblical texts.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of threescore in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of threescore in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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