Threescore
[θriː'skɔː] or ['θri'skor]
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Sixty.
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Examples
- Twenty-four hours in a day would be threescore and twelve for the three full days. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I would never marry after threescore, but live in a hospitable manner, yet still on the saving side. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- They made themselves huts, and accumulated other followers to the number of threescore or more. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Maybe that is my life and instead of it being threescore years and ten it is fortyeight hours or just threescore hours and ten or twelve rather. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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