SCORES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scores mean? 

• SCORES (noun)
  The noun SCORES has 1 sense:

1. a large number or amount

  Familiarity information: SCORES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCORES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large number or amount

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

dozens; gobs; heaps; lashings; loads; lots; oodles; piles; rafts; scads; scores; slews; stacks; tons; wads

Context example:

she amassed stacks of newspapers

Hypernyms ("scores" is a kind of...):

large indefinite amount; large indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude)

 Context examples 

Scores of distinctive rock deposits observed by LRO are estimated to be less than 100 million years old.

(Evidence for Young Lunar Volcanism, NASA)

The Karnofsky Performance scores range from 0 to 100.

(Karnofsky Performance Status, NCI Dictionary)

The sound stimulation significantly enhanced deep sleep in participants and their scores on a memory test.

(Sound Waves Boost Older Adult' Memory, Deep Sleep, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

She saw herself the object of attention, to tens and to scores of them at present unknown.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

In looking at their results the researchers report finding that the higher the levels of pollution the lower the test scores as people grew older.

(Pollution Linked to Significant Decline in Human Cognition, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

And yet, from day to day, he read storiettes in the dailies and weeklies, scores and scores of storiettes, not one of which would compare with his.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The researchers then divided their CARE scores into three groups.

(Patients with an ‘empathic’ GP at reduced risk of early death, University of Cambridge)

One of the most widely used instruments to assess depression, PHQ-9 scores of 5, 10, 15, and 20 represent mild, moderate, moderately severe, and severe depression, respectively.

(Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 Item, NCI Thesaurus)

This was no new arrangement, but a thing that had befallen many scores of times.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Or if that ain't to your fancy, some of my hands being rough and having old scores on account of hazing, then you can stay here, you can.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)