Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
fourscore [fawr-skawr, fohr-skohr] ExamplesWord Origin adjective
- four times twenty; eighty.
Origin of fourscore Middle English word dating back to 1200–50; see origin at four, score Examples from the Web for fourscore Historical Examples of fourscore
Just imagine; and that, too, at fourscore and ten years of age.
Molire
Each of the others should have fourscore silver pennies for his shooting.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Howard Pyle
He enjoyed a strong, robust, and vigorous health; to the age of fourscore.
Boniface Oinophilus
I am an old man now; the burden of fourscore years is resting upon me.
David James Burrell
St. Maws is garrisoned by an able-bodied person of fourscore, a widower.
Arthur L. Salmon
British Dictionary definitions for fourscore fourscore determiner
- an archaic word for eighty
Word Origin and History for fourscore n.
“eighty,” mid-13c., “formerly current as an ordinary numeral” [OED], from four + score (n.).
