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Four score and seven years = 87 years.
A "score" is 20. Abraham Lincoln used this phrase as a fancy way of referring to the founding of the country (in 1776) in his Gettysburg Address, the speech he gave at the dedication of a cemetery for those who died in that devastating Civil War battle.
Lincoln likely intended an allusion to familiar biblical language (King James Version), especially to Psalm 90, in which the human life span is said to be "three score years and ten".
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∙ 14y agoA "score" is twenty years, so four score and seven is a total of 87 years
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Four score and ten years ago what does this mean?
score is a set of twenty so 4 x 20 + 10 = 90 years ago.
What does four score mean?
a score is equal to twenty, so four score is 80
What dose five score years ago mean?
One score is 20 years. Five score is 100 years (does not dose).
What does 4 score mean?
This has been asked and answered before. Four score is 80. A score is twenty. 4 score means 4x20, as score means a measurement of 20.
What does martin Luther mean by five score years ago?
A score is twenty. So 20 x 5 = 100 years.
What does score mean at the end of a number?
A score is equal to twenty. "Four score and seven years" is eighty-seven years.
What does four score mean in the Gettysburg address?
A score is twenty years, so 4 score is 80 years and 'four score and seven' means 87 years.
Who said four score and ten years ago?
If you mean four score and seven years ago, it was said by Abraham Lincoln, the first words from his Gettysburg Address.
In time what does a score mean?
It is 20 years. So in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, "four score and seven years ago" is 87 years--he was referring to 1776.
What languages did Abraham linclon speak?
ENGLISH!!!!!!!!! i mean he was president of the U.S.A..... and four score an seven years ago... is in English
What is a score year?
A score year is an archaic way of referring to 20 years. It was commonly used in historical documents or literature in the past, such as the Gettysburg Address where Abraham Lincoln mentioned "four score and seven years ago" to mean 87 years.
What does Four score in the 65 in the past mean?
Four Score = 20 x 4 = 80 + 65 = 145 years in the past.
What does 7 score mean?
Score is an old term meaning 20. Similarly, we still use dozen to mean 12 of anything. The most famouse example I know is when Abe Lincoln used "Four score and seven years ago" in a speech. It was a fancy way of saying 87 years. So 7 score of whatever you are counting would be 7x20=140 of them.
What does score mean in mathematical terms?
A score is 20. For popular example in Abraham Lincoln's speech (The Gettysburg Address) He uses the words "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth...." and so on he is clearly saying 87 years due to the Declaration of Independence which happened 87 years earlier.
Four score and ten years ago what does this mean?
score is a set of twenty so 4 x 20 + 10 = 90 years ago.
What does four score. Mean?
a score is equal to twenty, so four score is 80
What does four score mean?
a score is equal to twenty, so four score is 80
