scores

Noun

score (plural scores or score)

1. The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
   • The player with the highest score is the winner.
2. The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.
   • The score is 8-1 even though it's not even half-time!
3. The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.
   • The test scores for this class were high.
4. Twenty (20).
   • 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.1863 November 19, Abraham Lincoln, Dedicatory Remarks (Gettysburg Address)^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address_(Bliss_copy)), near Soldiers' National Cemetery, →LCCN, Bliss copy, page 1
   1. A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
      • At Markes full fortie score they vs'd to Prick and Roue.1612, Michael Drayton, chapter 26, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great...
   2. A weight of twenty pounds.

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