threescore

Speech parts

1. threescore - Noun

2. threescore - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

being ten more than fifty

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

sixty lx 60 eighteen hexagon article score apply eleven dozen seventy sixties seventies fortnight sixtieth
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Antonyms

young new kid on the block new blood

Hypernyms

set

Phrases with the word

threescore and thirteen threescore and ten

Examples

Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore. Oliver Goldsmith

By rights he was still outrunning his age, still ahead of most men nearing threescore years, but he knew deep in his heart that there would never be any way of running fast enough. Scott Lynch

Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow. A. E. Housman

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb. Josh Billings

I am not old, - I cannot be old, Though threescore years and ten Have wasted away, like a tale that is told, The lives of other men: I am not old ; though friends and foes Alike have gone to their graves, And left me alone to my joys or my woes, As a rock in the midst of the waves. Martin Farquhar Tupper

Close letter words and terms

threequarters threequel threes threescore and ten threescore and thirteen threeside