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Definitions for Fourscoreˈfɔrˈskɔr, ˈfoʊrˈskoʊrfourscore

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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. eighty, 80, LXXX, fourscoreadjective

   the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight

2. eighty, 80, lxxx, fourscoreadjective

   being ten more than seventy

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. fourscorenumeral

   Eighty.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fourscoreadjective

   Etymology: four and score.

   1. Four times twenty; eighty.

   When they were out of reach, they turned and crossed the ocean to Spain, having lost fourscore of their ships, and the greater part of their men. Francis Bacon, War with Spain.

   The Chiots were first a free people, being a commonwealth, maintaining a navy of fourscore ships. George Sandys.

   The Liturgy had, by the practice of near fourscore years, obtained great veneration from all sober Protestants. Edward Hyde.

   2. It is used elliptically for fourscore years in numbering the age of man.

   At seventeen years many their fortunes seek;But at fourscore it is too late a week. William Shakespeare, As you like it.

   Some few might be of use in council upon great occasions, ’till after threescore and ten; and the two late ministers in Spain were so ’till fourscore. William Temple.

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1. Fourscore

   Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service in the United Kingdom. At the time, the only other channels were the licence-funded BBC One and BBC Two, and a single commercial broadcasting network ITV. The network's headquarters are based in London and Leeds, with creative hubs in Glasgow and Bristol.It is publicly owned and advertising-funded; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public corporation of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which was established in 1990 and came into operation in 1993. Until 2010, Channel 4 did not broadcast in Wales, but many of its programmes were re-broadcast there by the Welsh fourth channel S4C. In 2010, Channel 4 extended service into Wales and became a UK-wide television channel.

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1. fourscore

   Fourscore is an old-fashioned term for the number eighty. It comes from the practice of counting by scores (a score is twenty), so "four score" equates to four times twenty, or eighty. This term is famously used in Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: "Four score and seven years ago..."

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Fourscorenoun

   four times twenty; eighty

2. Fourscorenoun

   the product of four times twenty; eighty units or objects

3. Etymology: [Four + core, n.]

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1. Fourscore

   Fourscore was the signature tune used by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom for 10 years, from 1982 to 1992. It was composed by Lord David Dundas. Various short excerpts from the piece, which were the various orchestrations of the same four note melody, in the key of F Major, were used to accompany the channel ident used between programmes. For each time the music was used for the ident, Dundas received a royalty of £3.50, which totalled approximately £1,000 per week. At the time, the sequence of four notes was the shortest musical piece to be copyrighted. A related piece with the same four-note theme, Fourscore II, was used by the channel to accompany stills in the event of technical faults, and was played during commercial breaks. The two pieces were issued on a single by Polydor Records, credited to The Airwave Orchestra.

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How to pronounce Fourscore?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Fourscore in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Fourscore in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Fourscore in a Sentence

1. Abraham Lincoln:

   Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

2. Abraham Lincoln:

   Fourscore 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.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNethttp://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Fourscore
2. ^ Wiktionaryhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fourscore
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionaryhttps://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Fourscore
4. ^ Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourscore
5. ^ ChatGPThttps://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionaryhttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Fourscore
7. ^ Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Fourscore
8. ^ Usage in printed sourceshttps://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Fourscore

Translations for Fourscore

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• осемдесетBulgarian
• vuitantaCatalan, Valencian
• ochentaSpanish
• quatre-vingtsFrench
• चौरासी कोसHindi
• tachtigDutch

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