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ˈθriˈskɔr, -ˈskoʊrthree·score
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Princeton's WordNet
threescoreadjective
a set with 3 times 20 members
sixty, 60, lx, threescoreadjective
being ten more than fifty
Wiktionary
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
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
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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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.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of threescore in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of threescore in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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