fourscore
/ˈfɔːskɔː/
Meanings
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Number
The number forty-score, or eighty.
Pronunciation
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/ˈfɔɹskɔɹ/
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Synonyms
three score and ten
Variants
List of all variants of fourscore that leads to same resultfourscore
Etymology
origin and the way in which meanings have changed throughout history.Fourscore is a number, specifically the number eighty. It is formed by combining the numbers forty and score, which is an old term for twenty.
Trivia
Any details, considerations, events or pieces of information regarding the word-
Fourscore is the number of years that Hamlet's father had been reigning before his death in Shakespeare's play Hamlet.
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The term 'score' originally meant 'twenty', so fourscore was equivalent to eighty.
How to Memorize "fourscore"
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visualize
- Imagine the number forty repeated eight times.
- Visualize the Roman numeral for eighty: LXXX -
associate
- Associate the number with the number of years Hamlet's father had been reigning before his death.
- Connect fourscore to the biblical passage 'Forty days and forty nights'. -
mnemonics
- Use the mnemonic 'Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation' to remember the number eighty.
- Create a mental image of a score (twenty) stacked four times.
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