threescore
Pronunciation
  • (America) IPA: /ˈθɹiskɔɹ/
Noun

threescore (plural threescores)

  1. (archaic) Sixty. (60)
    And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand and seven hundred and threescore; very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.
    1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗:
    1 Chronicles 9:13
    • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XXI:
      Words cannot picture her; but all men know
      That solemn sketch the pure sad artist wrought
      Three centuries and threescore years ago



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