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THREESCORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does threescore mean? 

THREESCORE (noun)
  The noun THREESCORE has 1 sense:

1. a set with 3 times 20 membersplay

  Familiarity information: THREESCORE used as a noun is very rare.


THREESCORE (adjective)
  The adjective THREESCORE has 1 sense:

1. being ten more than fiftyplay

  Familiarity information: THREESCORE used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


THREESCORE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A set with 3 times 20 members

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("threescore" is a kind of...):

set (a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used)


THREESCORE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Being ten more than fifty

Synonyms:

60; lx; sixty; threescore

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)


 Context examples 


I would never marry after threescore, but live in a hospitable manner, yet still on the saving side.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)



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