Fourscore
[fɔː'skɔː] or ['for'skor]
Definition
(n.) Four times twenty; eighty.
(n.) The product of four times twenty; eighty units or objects.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. & n. Eighty.
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Examples
- These were not taken in war against us, and have drunk with us, and we with them, for fourscore years. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- They live generally to seventy, or seventy-five years, very seldom to fourscore. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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