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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • Six times twenty; one hundred and twenty.

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  • noun archaic One hundred and twenty.

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Examples

  • Cf. the last line of Jonah: “And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?”

    Nths of a sending 2009

  • And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more then sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more then sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • Elizabeth sixscore of houses was washed clean away, and the river itself knocked right into the sea; and a thing as had been once might just come to pass again, though folk was all so clever now they thought they wor above it.

    Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

  • The single line of chaos flame is brief, going unseen and unheard beneath the thunder of the sixscore barbarians who charge the Mirror Lancers.

    The Magi'i Of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

  • Five full-length bolts of Hamorian first rate cotton, thread count guaranteed tighter than sixscore to the span, ready to bleach and dye.

    The Magi'i Of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

  • Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not labored, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nin'eveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

    Jonah 4. 1999

  • And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.

    1 Kings 9. 1999

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