Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The cardinal number equal to 10 + 1.
- n. The 11th in a set or sequence.
- n. Something with 11 parts or members, especially a football team.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- One more than ten: a cardinal numeral beginning the second decade: as, eleven men.
- n. The number which is the sum of ten and one.
- n. A symbol representing eleven units, as 11, or XI., or xi.
- n. A team or side in cricket or foot-ball: so called because regularly consisting of eleven players: as, the Philadelphia eleven; there were two strong elevens matched.
Wiktionary
- The cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve. Represented as 11 in Arabic digits.
- n. A cricket team of eleven players.
- n. A football team of eleven players.
- n. Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, imitating n00bs who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Ten and one added.
- n. The sum of ten and one; eleven units or objects.
- n. A symbol representing eleven units, as 11 or xi.
- n. The eleven men selected to play on one side in a match, as the representatives of a club or a locality.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one
- adj. being one more than ten
- n. a team that plays football
Etymologies
- Middle English elleven, from Old English endleofan; see oi-no- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“_He was born eleven ages before the siege of Troy, and he is said to have lived nine ages; and according to some eleven_.”
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)
“It consists of thirty-eight lines in Cramer’s edition: of which Possinus omits eleven; and Matthaei also, eleven; — _but not the same eleven_.”
“Cuevas who successfully defended his title eleven times before losing by a second round TKO to”
“Why take fifteen months to enact a piece of legislation if you can get it done in eleven?”
““Claudia and Paul” is in eleven sections (including an Introduction and a Closing).”
“I crissed-crossed the country twenty-two (22) times in eleven (11) months and had a substantial role in fashioning the most complex of settlements" in Vioxx litigation, notes Los Angeles attorney Thomas Girardi in making his case for why his experience qualifies him for a lead post.”
The Wall Street Journal: Modesty Is Out as Lawyers Vie for Spot in BP Suit
“You may now vote online until April 14, 2010, for your favorite blog (s) in eleven languages and various categories, including freedom of expression and climate change.”
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“Hand-in-Hand Foundation (FONDAMA by its Creole acronym) brings together approximately 400,000 members in eleven organizations that together cover most parts of the country.”
The Huffington Post: Beverly Bell: Haitian Farmers: Growing Strength to Grow Food
“* Dems on defense everwhere: Interesting polling from The Hill, which surveys a dozen key toss-up House races all over the country and finds the GOP candidates leading in eleven of them, though in many cases the races remain nailbiters.”
“One in eleven of the whole working-class receive poor-law relief in the course of the year; 37,500,000 people receive less than 12 pounds per month, per family; and a constant army of 8,000,000 lives on the border of starvation.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eleven’.
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Kangaroo Words 2
Kangaroo words with joey-antonyms, e.g., pest/pet
pest, friend, giant, cremate, covert, there, feast, wonderful, animosity, inattentive, electrocuted, rectitude and 54 more...
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Elevensies
eleven, elevens, eleventeen, eleventh, elevenths, eleventy, elevenses, elevensies, eleventh hour, elevenpence, eleven-dimensional, eleven-plus and 11 more...
gangerh 'specially odd as it's odd. Not even even. Dec 7, 2009
pterodactyl Good question, Milos. I'd like to know, too.
Right now, all I know is that ELEVEN PLUS TWO is an anagram of TWELVE PLUS ONE. Dec 7, 2009
milosrdenstvi I was wondering today how "eleven" came from "one"; certainly not as obvious as "twelve" from "two". The etymologies here didn't help out too much.
Also, first and second. ??? Dec 7, 2009