Fourscore vs Onescore - What's the difference?
fourscore | onescore | Related terms |
Eighty.
* , Numbers IV:48:
* 1863 , (Abraham Lincoln), ‘Gettysburg Address’:
* 1914 , (Saki), ‘The Cobweb’, Beasts and Superbeasts :
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
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(head)- Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore .
- 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.
- 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.