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fivescore

fivescore numeral: hundred.

Numeral

fivescore

  1. (archaic) hundred
    • Fivescore years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. (Martin Luther King Jr., 1963, I have a dream)

Origin of fivescore

From five + score.

Questions about fivescore

What does fivescore mean?
Fivescore means hundred.
What part of speech is fivescore?
Fivescore is a numeral.

Words near fivescore in the dictionary

  1. fivequel
  2. fivequels
  3. fiver
  4. fivers
  5. fives
  6. fivescore
  7. fivesies
  8. fivesome
  9. fivesomes
  10. fivespot
  11. fivespots

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