score
a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,876 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,741 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance) also: mark, grade she made good marks in algebragrade A milk
- a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages also: musical score he studied the score of the sonata
- a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest the score was 7 to 0
- a set of twenty members a score were sent out but only one returned
- grounds also: account don't do it on my accountthe paper was rejected on account of its length
- the facts about an actual situation he didn't know the score
score in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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But John noticed, with surprise, that the Demon didn't score.
The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1
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Early this season He couldn't score, for no apparent reason.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1
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On this score, however, I need have had no alarm.
Nonsense Novels · Stephen Leacock · Chapter 1
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I couldn’t quite understand her irritation on this score, for she had nothing at stake in the matter.
Greville Fane · Henry James · Chapter 1
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He cut off Peter Russet's gag, and Peter Russet called 'im 'arf a score o' names without taking breath.
Bill's Lapse Odd Craft, Part 4. · W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs · Chapter 1