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say it: skawr
score is a noun and verb meaning "a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)". It is pronounced /ˈskɔɹ/ — skawr. It carries 18 recorded senses.
a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
“she made good marks in algebra”
“grade A milk”
“what was your score on your homework?”
a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages
“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 resentment strong enough to justify retaliation
“holding a grudge”
“settling a score”
the act of scoring in a game or sport
“the winning score came with less than a minute left to play”
a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse
“calling his seduction of the girl a `score' was a typical example of male slang”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for score come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.