Meaning

noun a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)

noun a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages

noun a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest

originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- Proto-Germanic *skurō Old Norse skorder. Old English scoru Middle English score English score 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”).…

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