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threescore Definition

three·score (t̸hrē′skôr′)

adjective, noun

three times twenty; sixty
threescore Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • have: And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.

Modifies a noun

  • cubit: The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
  • year: They remained there for threescore years, during which the head was uncorrupted.
threescore Quotes

Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more.

—Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)

The days of our years arethreescore years and ten; and if by reasonof strengththey be fourscore years, yet istheir strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

—Bible (Old Testament)