Fourscore
noun, num ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A quantity or amount of eighty.
"W. J. Davis, a retired missionary, a veteran in the fourscores of his years."
- 2 the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight wordnet
- 1 being ten more than seventy wordnet
- 1 Eighty. archaic
"Thou ſtick'ſt a dagger in me, I ſhall neuer ſee my gold againe, foureſcore ducats at aſitting, foureſcore ducats."
- 2 A full-length life, reckoned as eighty years. idiomatic
"[…] I know every life is equally sacred, but that is a thought, another thought, I mean, all these valuable people who aren’t going to have their normal fourscore as it is now, these people aren’t going to be replaced, and it’s such a loss to the culture."
Example
More examples""Fourscore and seven years ago, our forefathers owned a bunch of scrubs." "Harkinian, that's not right and you know it." "Quiet! I'm enjoying my tale, so let me tell my story.""
Etymology
From four + score.
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