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A score is twenty years, so 4 score is 80 years and 'four score and seven' means 87 years.
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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 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.
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
What does 'four score and seven years' mean?
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".
What does your fathers in the Gettysburg Address mean?
The people who founded the US
In the Gettysburg address what did Lincoln mean by unfinished work?
Abolition of slavery
What does the word address mean in the words Gettysburg Address?
well it basically is an announcement he made at Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Lincoln described the way he felt for the nation and so it was and announcement at Gettysburg (xhope this helps!Xoxo,Tiffany >.
What did Lincoln mean by fourscore?
Four score is a number. A score is twenty, as a dozen is twelve. Four score is 80.
What does the word resolve mean in the Gettysburg address?
cause people are stupid in alot of things they do
If four pupils worked out that their mean score in a test was 67. When Anna joined the other four pupils their mean score went up to 73. What was Anna's score in the test?
97
