Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The cardinal number equal to 10 + 1.
- noun The 11th in a set or sequence.
- noun Something with 11 parts or members, especially a football team.
from The Century Dictionary.
- One more than ten: a cardinal numeral beginning the second decade: as, eleven men.
- noun The number which is the sum of ten and one.
- noun A symbol representing eleven units, as 11, or XI., or xi.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Ten and one added.
- noun The sum of ten and one; eleven units or objects.
- noun A symbol representing eleven units, as 11 or xi.
- noun (Cricket & American Football) The eleven men selected to play on one side in a match, as the representatives of a club or a locality.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
cardinal number occurring afterten and beforetwelve . Represented as11 in Arabic digits. - noun cricket A
cricket team of elevenplayers . - noun soccer A
football team of eleven players. - noun Internet, slang, sarcastic Used instead of
! to amplify an exclamation, imitatingn00bs who forget to press theshift key while typing exclamation points.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one
- adjective being one more than ten
- noun a team that plays football
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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_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.) Jacob Bryant 1759
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It consists of thirty-eight lines in Cramer’s edition: of which Possinus omits eleven; and Matthaei also, eleven; — _but not the same eleven_.
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark John William Burgon 1850
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Why take fifteen months to enact a piece of legislation if you can get it done in eleven?
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“Claudia and Paul” is in eleven sections (including an Introduction and a Closing).
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milosrdenstvi commented on the word eleven
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. ???
December 7, 2009
pterodactyl commented on the word eleven
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.
December 7, 2009
gangerh commented on the word eleven
'specially odd as it's odd. Not even even.
December 7, 2009
gulyasrobi commented on the word eleven
"eleven" in Hungarian means: lively
August 1, 2012