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Let ten minutes mean neither nine nor eleven--though better nine than eleven, at all events.

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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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  • King puts her at nine, but she seemed older to me --eleven or twelve. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 03 - September 1999
  • The dealer dealt Kevin another powerful eleven, an ugly fourteen, and a pair of sevens, then pulled the worst card in the deck, a six. —  BringingDowntheHouse
  • It was after eleven, and Fisher had called the meeting from Logan Airport via a pay phone. —  BringingDowntheHouse
  • The flagship “Dannebroge” had been on fire as early as half-past eleven, and the commander-in-chief, Commodore Fischer, had felt necessary to shift his broad pendant to the “Holstein,” the second ship from the north flank. —  The Life of Nelson, Vol. II
  • At eleven, my head was already even with his, although he teased me that it was my hair that made me seem so tall. —  F ;SF; - vol 096 issue 03 - March 1999
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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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