fourscore
/ˈfɔɹskoɹ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.57 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
num
A full-length life, reckoned as eighty years.
Example Sentences
- "Thou ſtick'ſt a dagger in me, I ſhall neuer ſee my gold againe, foureſcore ducats at aſitting, foureſcore ducats."
- "Euen thoſe that were numbꝛed of them, were eight thouſand, and fiue hundꝛed, and foureſcoꝛe."
- "“I could be sorry for these men,” he said, “ay, and for that poor Queen, but what avail earthly sorrows to a man of fourscore?—and it is a rare dropping morning for the early colewort.”"
- "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
- "Old Martha was standing at a table trussing a pair of chickens for the market stall as she had trussed them for nearly fourscore years."
- "[…] I know every life is equally sacred, but that is a thought, another thought, I mean, all these valuable people who aren’t going to have their normal fourscore as it is now, these people aren’t going to be replaced, and it’s such a loss to the culture."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɔɹskoɹ/
- British English: /ˈfɔːskɔː/