score

score

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English

Etymology

From Middle English score, skore, schore, from Old English scoru (notch; tally; score), from Old Norse skor, from Proto-Germanic *skurō (incision; tear; rift), which is related to *skeraną (to cut), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (cut). Cognate with Icelandic skora, Swedish skåra, Danish skår. Related to shear.

For the sense “twenty”: The mark on a tally made by drovers for every twenty beasts passing through a tollgate.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: skôr, IPA(key): /skɔː/
  • (General American) enPR: skôrʹ, IPA(key): /skɔɹ/
  • (rhotic, without the horsehoarse merger) enPR: skōrʹ, IPA(key): /sko(ː)ɹ/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horsehoarse merger) IPA(key): /skoə/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

Noun

score (plural scores)

  1. The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
  2. The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.
  3. The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.
  4. Twenty, 20.
  5. (gambling) An amount of money won in gambling; winnings.
  6. A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
  7. A weight of twenty pounds.
  8. (music) The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts.
  9. (music) The music of a movie or play.
  10. Subject.
  11. Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
  12. A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
  13. An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; debt.
  14. (US, crime, slang) a criminal act, especially:
    1. A robbery.
    2. A bribe paid to a police officer.
    3. An illegal sale, especially of drugs.
    4. A prostitute's client.
  15. (originally US, vulgar, slang) A sexual conquest.
  16. (UK, regional) In the Lowestoft area, a narrow pathway running down a cliff to the beach.

Usage notes

As a quantity, a score is counted as any other unit: ten score, twelve score, fourteen score, etc. (or tenscore, twelvescore). There is no word for 202; rather, twenty score is used, and twice that forty score.

Synonyms

  • (prostitute's client): see Thesaurus:prostitute's client

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

score (third-person singular simple present scores, present participle scoring, simple past and past participle scored)

  1. (transitive) To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
  2. (intransitive) To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
  3. (transitive, intransitive) To obtain something desired.
    1. To earn points in a game.
    2. To achieve (a score) in e.g. a test.
    3. (gambling) To win money by gambling.
    4. (slang) To acquire or gain.
    5. (US, crime, slang, of a police officer) To extract a bribe.
    6. (vulgar, slang) To obtain a sexual favor.
  4. (transitive) To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.

Conjugation

Synonyms

  • (to cut a groove in a surface): groove, notch
  • (to record the score): keep, score, tally
  • (to earn points in a game):
  • (to achieve a score in a test):
  • (to acquire or gain): come by, earn, obtain; see also Thesaurus:receive
  • (to extract a bribe): shake down
  • (to obtain a sexual favor): pull
  • (to provide with a musical score): soundtrack

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Irish: scóráil

Translations

Interjection

score

  1. (US, slang) Acknowledgement of success

See also

  • grade

References

  • Tom Dalzell, The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English, 2008, page 846
  • Jonathon Green (2024), “score n.3”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Anagrams

  • Corse, Crose, ROCEs, Secor, Sorce, ceros, cores, corse, creos, ocres

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English score.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skoːrə/, [ˈsɡ̊oːɐ]

Noun

score c (singular definite scoren, plural indefinite scorer)

  1. A score, a number of points earned.

Declension

Verb

score

  1. score a goal/point
  2. land (to acquire; to secure)
  3. (slang) steal
  4. persuade (someone) to have sex with oneself [from 1959]

Conjugation

Derived terms

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English score.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈskoː.rə/
  • Hyphenation: sco‧re

Noun

score m (plural scores, diminutive scoretje n)

  1. score (number of points earned)

Derived terms

  • scorebord

Related terms

  • scoren

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English score.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skɔʁ/

Noun

score m (plural scores)

  1. score (in a sport, game)

Derived terms

  • scorer

Descendants

  • Romanian: scor n

Further reading

  • “score”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • corse, Corse
  • ocres

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • scoore, skore

Etymology

Inherited from Old English scoru, from Old Norse skor, from Proto-Germanic *skurō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈskɔːr(ə)/

Noun

score (plural scores)

  1. score

Descendants

  • English: score
  • Yola: score

References

  • “scōr(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • (of noun) skår
  • (of verb) skåre

Etymology

Via English score, from Old Norse skor. Related to Old Norse skera (modern Norwegian Bokmål skjære).

Noun

score m (definite singular scoren, indefinite plural scorer, definite plural scorene)

  1. a score

Verb

score (imperative scor, present tense scorer, passive scores, simple past and past participle scora or scoret, present participle scorende)

  1. to score (earn points in a game)

Derived terms

  • scorer
  • scoring
  • scoringsposisjon
  • scoringssjanse

References

  • “score” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “score” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • (of noun) skår
  • (of verb) skåre, skåra
  • (of verb) scora

Etymology

Borrowed from English score. Doublet of skòr.

Noun

score m (definite singular scoren, indefinite plural scorar, definite plural scorane)

  1. a score

Verb

score (present tense scorar, past tense scora, past participle scora, passive infinitive scorast, present participle scorande, imperative score/scor)

  1. to score (earn points in a game)

References

  • “score” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English score.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /esˈkoɾ/ [esˈkoɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ

Noun

score m (plural scores)

  1. (sports) score

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English score, from Old English scoru.

Noun

score

  1. score

References

  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 94

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