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Eleven

//əˈlɛvən// noun, num, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    being one more than ten wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A cricket team of eleven players. Hence first eleven - the team of best cricket players (at a school), second eleven - the "B" team, etc.
  2. 2
    a team that plays football wordnet
  3. 3
    A football team of eleven players; the starting lineup.

    "Sneeze is well known by all followers of U. of D. athletics for his great work at halfback on the Flyers' eleven for the past four seasons [...]"

  4. 4
    the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one wordnet
  5. 5
    Deliberate misspelling of !!, used to amplify an exclamation, imitating someone who forgets to press the shift key while typing exclamation points. Internet, alt-of, deliberate, misspelling, sarcastic, slang

    "A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!!?!"

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  1. 6
    A number off the charts of a hypothetical scale of one to ten.; An exceptional specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person. US, countable, slang
  2. 7
    A number off the charts of a hypothetical scale of one to ten.; A very high level of intensity. US, countable, slang
Numeral
  1. 1
    The cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve. Represented as 11 in Arabic digits.

    "It was a thunderstormy morning, eleven o'clock, with great dashes of rain pounding against the windows."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English elleven, enleven, eleven, from Old English endleofan; from Proto-Germanic *ainalif (“one left”) (i.e., one left over after having already counted to ten), a compound of *ainaz and *-lif, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, remain”). Compare West Frisian alve, Low German ölven, Dutch elf, German elf, Icelandic ellefu, Danish and Norwegian elleve.

Etymology 2

From Middle English elleven, enleven, eleven, from Old English endleofan; from Proto-Germanic *ainalif (“one left”) (i.e., one left over after having already counted to ten), a compound of *ainaz and *-lif, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, remain”). Compare West Frisian alve, Low German ölven, Dutch elf, German elf, Icelandic ellefu, Danish and Norwegian elleve.

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