- fivescore
- \\ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷\ adjective
: being 100 in number
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
fivescore
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fivescore — noun Hundred Fivescore years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. (Martin Luther King Jr., 1963, I have a dream) … Wiktionary
onescore — noun Twenty . See Also: twoscore, threescore, fourscore, fivescore, sixscore, sevenscore, eightscore, ninescore, tenscore … Wiktionary
score — a traditional unit of quantity equal to 20. The score, like the dozen, helps us describe a moderate number of objects. This is one of the many cases in which English has two words for similar concepts, one word from the Old French spoken in… … Dictionary of units of measurement
