Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being three times twenty; sixty.
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- noun archaic
Sixty . (60)
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Examples
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As wage slaves, toiling early and late, and living abstemiously, we could not save in threescore years — nor in twenty times threescore years — a sum of money sufficient successfully to cope with the great aggregations of massed capital which now exist.
The Minions of Midas 2010
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And in threescore generations it has achieved it all -- think of it! threescore generations!
CHAPTER 14 2010
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As wage slaves, toiling early and late, and living abstemiously, we could not save in threescore years -- nor in twenty times threescore years -- a sum of money sufficient successfully to cope with the great aggregations of massed capital which now exist.
The Minions of Midas 1906
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As wage slaves, toiling early and late, and living abstemiously, we could not save in threescore years — nor in twenty times threescore years — a sum of money sufficient to successfully cope with the great aggregations of massed capital which now exist.
The Minions of Midas 1901
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8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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Such hours 'gainst years of life, -- say, would he name threescore?
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Such hours 'gainst years of life, -- say, would he name threescore?
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Such hours ‘gainst years of life, — say, would he name threescore?
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Corliss, I've lived my threescore, and lived them well, and do you know, woman is a greater mystery than ever.
CHAPTER 11 2010
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These four face the west, and between them and the bloody rock squat some threescore of cave-folk, talking loudly among themselves.
THE FIRST POET 2010
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