Eleven
noun, num, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 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 a team that plays football wordnet
- 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 the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one wordnet
- 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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- 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
- 7 A number off the charts of a hypothetical scale of one to ten.; A very high level of intensity. US, countable, slang
- 1 being one more than ten wordnet
- 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."
Example
More examples"Rosie was allowed to stay up till eleven o'clock."
Etymology
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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