What does "eleven" mean?
A cricket team of eleven players. Hence first eleven - the team of best cricket players (at a school), second eleven - the "B" team, etc.
Eleven
/əˈlɛvən/ noun, num, slang
noun, num, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A cricket team of eleven players. Hence first eleven - the team of best cricket players (at a school), second eleven - the "B" team, etc.
- Grammar: eleven is listed as noun, num, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: 11, xi, 11, boxcar.
- Useful contrasts: all, catalan dotze, dilution factor ten.
- Usage evidence: Rosie was allowed to stay up till eleven o'clock.
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Definitions
Noun
- 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
Adjective
- 1 being one more than ten wordnet
Numeral
- 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."
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Example
"Rosie was allowed to stay up till eleven o'clock."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "eleven"?
Common synonyms include: 11, xi, 11, boxcar, boxcars, cardinal eleven.
How do you use "eleven" in a sentence?
Rosie was allowed to stay up till eleven o'clock.
How do you pronounce "eleven"?
Pronounced /əˈlɛvən/.
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.