Meanings
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1
noun
The number of points each side has won in a game or contest.
The final score was 7 to 0.
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2
verb
To win a point, goal, or run in a game.
The home team scored in the last minute of the match.
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3
verb
To achieve a certain result in a test or assessment.
I scored very high on the exam.
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4
noun
The real facts about a situation.
They didn't know the score until someone explained what had happened.
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5
noun
A group of twenty.
A score of soldiers were sent, but only one returned.
Thesaurus
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.