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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 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 It was commonly used in historical documents or literature in the past, such as the Gettysburg Address where Abraham Lincoln mentioned "four score and seven years ago" to mean 87 years.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 ten score mean?
"Ten score" refers to a quantity of 200. In this phrase, "score" means 20, so ten score is calculated as 10 times 20, which equals 200. The term is famously used in Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address," where he starts with "Four score and seven years ago," meaning 87 years ago.
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 6 score mean?
A "score" is an old term that means 20, so "6 score" refers to 6 times 20, which equals 120. This phrase is often associated with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, where he famously begins with "Four score and seven years ago," meaning 87 years ago. Thus, "6 score" can be used to denote a quantity of 120 in a historical or poetic context.
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 did Lincoln mean by fourscore?
Four score is a number. A score is twenty, as a dozen is twelve. Four score is 80.
