8️⃣ Eighty 8️⃣ Eighty in number

fourscore

9.9

Being eighty years old

adjective
/ˈfɔrˌskɔr/

Archaic

: ochenta

Abraham Lincoln famously began his speech, 'Four score and seven years ago.'

Examples

The patriarch lived to be more than fourscore years old, according to the old record.
It was fourscore!
She recited the passage mentioning 'threescore and ten' and 'four score years.'
The speech was given fourscore years ago.
Abraham lived for fourscore years before he began his great journey.
The historian noted that the battle occurred fourscore years ago.
In the story, the wise man claimed he had seen fourscore seasons pass.

Synonyms

vsfourscore

∞ 1.0

A number that is eight times ten

is the archaic spoken word rather than numeric digits

eighty

vsfourscore

268 1.0

A number equal to eight times ten

is the archaic spoken word rather than the modern word form

lxxx

vsfourscore

1 9.3

A Roman numeral that stands for eighty

is the archaic spoken word rather than lowercase numeral form

LXXX

vsfourscore

1 8.3

A Roman numeral that means eighty

is the archaic spoken word rather than Roman numerals

Compounds

fourscore year

Archaic

1 9.9

Eighty years in old language

Surface Forms

fourscore positive

Morphology

fourscore = four + score (semi-transparent) = four + score

Same compound structure as the numeric sense; the adjective meaning is transparent only if the learner knows 'score' = twenty, which is archaic.

Etymology

Fourscore as an adjective also comes from score, meaning 'twenty', so calling someone fourscore meant they were 'eighty' years old; it is now an old-fashioned way to say 'eighty'.