fourscore
pronunciation
How to pronounce fourscore in British English:
UK ['fɔ:'skɔ:]
How to pronounce fourscore in American English:
US ['foʊr'skoʊr]
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- Noun:
- the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight
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- Adjective:
- being ten more than seventy
Word Origin
- fourscore (n.)
- "eighty, four times twenty," mid-13c., "formerly current as an ordinary numeral" [OED], from four + score (n.). Archaic by the time Lincoln used it at Gettysburg in 1863. Related: Fourscorth "eightieth."
Example
- 1. And their brethren among all the families of issachar valiant men of might , reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand .
- 2. And their brethren among all the families of issachar were valiant men of might , reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand .
- 3. Fourscore 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 .
- 4. Kjv and their brethren among all the families of issachar were valiant men of might , reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand .
- 5. Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation , conceived in liberty , and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal .