fourscore

Speech parts

1. fourscore - Noun

2. fourscore - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Four times twenty; eighty.

The product of four times twenty; eighty units or objects.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

eighty 80 lxxx grand score hundred twenty eleven dozen fifty fifteen gross teens seventy hundredfold
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Antonyms

one single little young pennyworth halfpenny
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Hypernyms

large integer

Phrases with the word

fourscore and ten

Examples

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Abraham Lincoln

I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters. Mark Slouka

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Close letter words and terms

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