Definition of "threescore" [threescore]

• Being three times twenty; sixty. (adjective)

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• "And in threescore generations it has achieved it all -- think of it! threescore generations!"
• "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."
• "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."