Meaning & use
Threescore
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The number sixty, or a group of sixty things or people.
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The old proverb speaks of a life span of threescore years and ten.
Threescore soldiers stood guard along the castle wall.
A note on using this word
An archaic counting term based on 'score' (twenty); it survives mainly in biblical and literary phrases like 'threescore and ten.'
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sixty
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