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Fourscore vs Onescore - What's the difference?

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Fourscore is a related term of onescore.


As numerals the difference between fourscore and onescore

is that fourscore is eighty while onescore is (archaic|rare) twenty]].

fourscore

English

Numeral

(head)
  • Eighty.
  • * , Numbers IV:48:
    • Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore .
  • * 1863 , (Abraham Lincoln), ‘Gettysburg Address’:
    • Four score 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.
  • * 1914 , (Saki), ‘The Cobweb’, Beasts and Superbeasts :
    • Old Martha was standing at a table trussing a pair of chickens for the market stall as she had trussed them for nearly fourscore years.

    onescore

    English

    Numeral

    (head)
  • (archaic, rare) Twenty]] .

    • Related terms

    * twoscore, threescore, fourscore, fivescore, sixscore, sevenscore, eightscore, ninescore, tenscore