Meanings
plural threescores
- archaicSixty (60).
Words cannot picture her; but all men know That solemn sketch the pure sad artist wrought Three centuries and threescore years ago
1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XXI1 more example
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.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Chronicles 9:13
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From three + score. Compare the etymology of Danish tres.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French trois vingts
- trois vingtssixty
Polish kopa
- kopasixty
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