What does ELEVEN mean?

Definitions for ELEVEN
ɪˈlɛv əneleven

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. eleven, 11, XInoun

    the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one

  2. football team, elevenadjective

    a team that plays football

  3. eleven, 11, xiadjective

    being one more than ten

Wiktionary

  1. elevennoun

    A cricket team of eleven players.

  2. elevennoun

    A football team of eleven players.

  3. elevennoun

    Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, imitating n00bs who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points.

  4. Etymology: endleofan; from Common *ainlif-, a compound of *ainaz and *lif-.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. ELEVENadjective

    Ten and one; one more than ten.

    Etymology: ændlefen, Saxon.

    Had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather eleven die nobly for their country, than one voluptuously surfeit out of action. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

ChatGPT

  1. eleven

    Eleven is a natural number or integer that comes after ten and before twelve. It is often represented by the numeral "11" and is considered an odd number. In Roman numerals, it is written as 'XI'.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Elevenadjective

    ten and one added; as, eleven men

  2. Elevennoun

    the sum of ten and one; eleven units or objects

  3. Elevennoun

    a symbol representing eleven units, as 11 or xi

  4. Elevennoun

    the eleven men selected to play on one side in a match, as the representatives of a club or a locality; as, the all-England eleven

  5. Etymology: [OE. enleven, AS. endleofan, endlufon, for nleofan; akin to LG. eleve, lwe, lwen, D. elf, G. elf, eilf, OHG. einlif, Icel. ellifu, Sw. elfva, Dan. elleve, Goth. ainlif, cf. Lith. vnolika; and fr. the root of E. one + (prob.) a root signifying to be left over, remain, appearing in E. loan, or perh. in leave, v. t., life. See One, and cf. Twelve.]

Wikidata

  1. Eleven

    Eleven was a hard rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1990 by Alain Johannes, Natasha Shneider, and Jack Irons.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Eleven

    e-lev′n, n. the cardinal number next above ten: the figure (11 or xi.) denoting eleven: a team of eleven cricketers.—adj. noting the number eleven.—adj. and n. Elev′enth, the ordinal number corresponding to eleven.—Eleventh hour, the very last moment, referring to Matt. xx. 6, 9. [A.S. endleofon; cf. Goth. ainlif.]

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'ELEVEN' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4056

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'ELEVEN' in Written Corpus Frequency: #562

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ELEVEN in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ELEVEN in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of ELEVEN in a Sentence

  1. Spike Milligan:

    How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.

  2. Peter Ben Embarek:

    Eleven contacts are symptomatic. It's a mix of family contacts and hospital contacts, the doctors and nurses who attended the case before she was tested and found positive.

  3. Vance Havner:

    It's about time we quit playing church in these services that start at eleven o clock sharp and end at twelve o clock dull.

  4. P. G. Wodehouse:

    At five minutes to eleven on the morning named he was at the station, a false beard and spectacles shielding his identity from the public eye. If you had asked him he would have said that he was a Scotch business man. As a matter a fact, he looked far more like a motor-car coming through a haystack.

  5. A. W. Tozer:

    One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

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