Threescore

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Being three times twenty; sixty.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Sixty. (60)
  • Word Usage
    "As wage slaves, toiling early and late, and living abstemiously, we could not save in threescore years — nor in twenty times threescore years — a sum of money sufficient successfully to cope with the great aggregations of massed capital which now exist."
    Equivalent
    cardinal   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    set   
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    sixty   
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