## Meanings
1. The number of points each side has won in a game or contest.
2. To win a point, goal, or run in a game.
3. To achieve a certain result in a test or assessment.
4. The real facts about a situation.
5. A group of twenty.

## Examples
- The final score was 7 to 0.
- The home team scored in the last minute of the match.
- I scored very high on the exam.
- They didn't know the score until someone explained what had happened.
- A score of soldiers were sent, but only one returned.

## Synonyms
- earn
- obtain
- receive

## Derived Forms
- eightscore
- elevenscore
- fivescore
- fourscore
- hi-score
- ninescore
- outscore
- overscore
- scorable
- score-draw
- score-off
- score-settling

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *(s)ker-
- Root: score
- Root: scoru
- Root: skor
- Root: *skurō

## 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.

## AI Etymology
Score is 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. Important forms in the word's history include Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-, Middle English score, Old English scoru, Old Norse skor, Proto-Germanic *skurō. In current use it includes senses such as The number of points each side has won in a game or contest and To win a point, goal, or run in a game.

## Topics
- Sports & Fitness

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