threescore

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
15
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈθɹiskɔɹ/ (US)

Definition of threescore

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (archaic)Sixty (60).
    “And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand, and seuen hundred and threescore, very able men for the worke of the seruice of the house of God.”
    “Words cannot picture her; but all men know That solemn sketch the pure sad artist wrought Three centuries and threescore years ago”
    “We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.”

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Etymology

From three + score. Compare the etymology of Danish tres.

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