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  1. noun The cardinal number equal to 10 + 1.
  2. noun The 11th in a set or sequence.
  3. noun Something with 11 parts or members, especially a football team.
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  • They were a dozen against one, and each one of them took it for granted that the other eleven were attending to business and that he need not exert himself overmuch. —  The Making of an American
  • Martha nuzzled me gently, then she finished the fusilli for me. —  1st to Die
  • At the age of eleven, students had to take an exam known as the eleven-plus which would decide whether or not they went on to a grammar school or to a secondary modern school. —  The Jigsaw Man
  • Third, “When, then, was he reconciled?” — “When they surrendered themselves, and all the eleven were prostrate at his feet, like the eleven sheaves which bowed to Joseph's sheaf in the harvest field; then he made himself known to them, and forgave them. —  From Death into Life
  • "When I was ten -- eleven, I did exactly the same thing, only the rudder didn't break. —  Last April Fair
 

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  1. Middle English elleven, from Old English endleofan; see oi-no- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English elleven, enleven, enlevene, enleve, elleoven, elleove, endleve, etc., from Anglo-Saxon endleofan, endlufon, endlyfon (= Old Saxon elef, elevan, eleven, ellevan = OFries. andlova, alvene, elleva = Dutch elf = Low German eleve, ölwe, ölwen = Old High German einlif, Middle High German einlif, einlef, eilef, eilf, German eilf, elf = Icelandic ellifu, later ellefu, = Swedish elfva = Danish elleve = Gothic (Moesogothic) ainlif), eleven, orig. *ānlif (the first syllable (end-, from ān) having been modified by shortening and mutation with dissimilated gemination of n to nd, and the last syllable (-an, -on) added as a quasi-plural suffix), from ān (= Gothic (Moesogothic) ain, etc.), one, + -lif, an element appearing also in Gothic (Moesogothic) twalif = Anglo-Saxon twelf, English twelve, etc. (see twelve), and apparently = Lithuanian -lika, in vënolika, eleven, where the element is by some supposed to stand for *dika = Greek δέκα = Latin decem = English ten, making the Teutonic and Lithuanian forms exactly cognate with L. undecim, eleven, from unus = English one, + decem = English ten.
 

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