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Definitions: Threescore |
ThreescoreAdjective1. Being ten more than fifty. Noun1. A set with 3 times 20 members. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "threescore" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: ThreescoreSynonyms: lx (adj), sixty (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Age | Noun: age; oldness; Adjective: old age, advanced age, golden years; senility, senescence; years, anility, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuation; second childhood, second childishness; dotage; vale of years, decline of life, "sear and yellow leaf"; threescore years and ten; green old age, ripe age; longevity; time of life. |
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Josh Billings | Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb. |
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Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I would never marry after threescore, but live in an hospitable manner, yet still on the saving side. |
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| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "threescore": threescore-years-and-ten. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
threescore | 12 |
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| Language | Translations for "threescore"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gjashtëdhjetë (sixty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ستون (sixty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | три пъти по двадесет, шестдесет. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kopa, šedesát (sixty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | سه ضرب دربیست , شصت تاءی , شصت (Sixty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sechzig (sixty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ששים (sixty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hatvan (sixty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | età di 60 anni. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | tree feed (sixty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eescorethray sessenta (sixty). (various references) şaizeci de ani. (various references) шестьдесят (sixty). (various references) šezdeset (sixty). (various references) sesenta (sixty). (various references) หกสิบ. (various references) altmış (sexagenary, sixty). (various references) тричі по двадцять. (various references) sáu mươi (sixty). (various references) trigain (sixty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 27, Verse 37 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Hmen de en tw ploiw ai pasai yucai diakosiai ebdomhkontaex |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Eramus vero universae animae in navi ducentae septuaginta sex |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And we weren alle men in the schip, two hundrid seuenti and sexe. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | We were all together in ye ship two hundred thre score and sixtene soules. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And we were in all in the ship two hundred and seventy six souls. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And we were, in the ship, two hundred and seventy-six persons. |
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| Language | Acts Chapter 27, Verse 37 |
| Albanian | Dhe në anijen ne ishim gjithsej dyqind e shtatëdhjetë e gjashtë veta. |
| Croatian | A svih nas je u laði bilo dvjesta sedamdeset i šest duša. |
| Danish | Men vi vare i Skibet i alt to Hundrede og seks og halvfjerdsindstyve Sjæle. |
| Dutch | Wij waren nu in het schip in alles tweehonderd zes en zeventig zielen. |
| Finnish | Ja meitä oli laivassa kaikkiaan kaksisataa seitsemänkymmentä kuusi henkeä. |
| French | Nous étions, dans le navire, deux cent soixante-seize personnes en tout. |
| German | Unser waren aber alle zusammen im Schiff zweihundert und sechundsiebzig Seelen. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Semua yang berada di kapal itu ada dua ratus tujuh puluh enam orang. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Adalah banyaknya kami di dalam kapal itu dua ratus tujuh puluh enam orang. |
| Italian | Eravamo complessivamente sulla nave duecentosettantasei persone. |
| Maori | Na e rua rau e whitu tekau ma ono matou katoa i te kaipuke. |
| Norwegian | Vi var i alt to hundre og seks og sytti sjeler på skibet. |
| Portuguese | Éramos ao todo no navio duzentas e setenta e seis almas. |
| Rumanian | Kn corabie eram de toyi: douq sute waptezeci wi wase de suflete. |
| Swahili | Jumla tulikuwa watu mia mbili na sabini na sita katika meli. |
| Swedish | Och vi voro på skeppet tillsammans två hundra sjuttiosex personer. |
| Uma | Hawe'ea tauna ihi' kapal toe, ro'atu pitu mpulu' ono. |
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Misspellings | |
"Threescore" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: threesore. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-h-o-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: torcheres. | |
-2 letters: cheerers, coherers, erecters, erectors, reechoes, reerects, secreter, secretor, shoetree, torchere, trochees. | |
-3 letters: cheerer, cheeros, coherer, coheres, echoers, erecter, erector, etchers, hectors, heteros, rechose, rectors, reerect, rescore, restore, retches, rhetors, rochets, rotches, secrete, sheerer, sheeter, shorter, steerer, tochers, torches, trochee, troches. | |
-4 letters: certes, cheero, cheers, cheese, cherts, chores, cohere, corers, corset, cosher, coster. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-h-o-r-r-s-t" | |
+3 letters: overstretched, overstretches, reorchestrate. | |
+4 letters: chemoreceptors, electrophorese, hypersecretion, reorchestrated, reorchestrates. | |
+5 letters: archaeopteryxes, atheroscleroses, electrophoresed, electrophoreses, electrophoresis, hyperexcretions, hypersecretions, overorchestrate, stereochemistry, thermoreceptors, treacherousness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 68 72 65 65 73 63 6F 72 65 |
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