English Explanatory Dictionary

eleven

English dictionary entry

Meanings

num
  1. The cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve. Represented as 11 in Arabic digits.
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 football team of eleven players; the starting lineup.
  3. Deliberate misspelling of !!, used to amplify an exclamation, imitating someone who forgets to press the shift key while typing exclamation points.
  4. A number off the charts of a hypothetical scale of one to ten.
  5. An exceptional specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.
  6. A very high level of intensity.

Pronunciation

/ɪˈlɛvən/ /əˈlɛvən/ /i-/ [ɪˈlɛbm̩] /(ɪ)ˈlɛvən/ En-us-eleven.ogg En-au-eleven.ogg

Word forms

eleven Arabic numerals Roman numerals leven 'leven leben elevens

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *lībaną Proto-Germanic *-lif Proto-Germanic *ainalif Proto-West Germanic *ainalif Proto-West Germanic *ainalifun Old English endleofan Middle English elleven English eleven 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.

Synonyms

one 1

Related words

onety-one

Derived words

up to eleven eighty-eleven elevener elevenie elevenish elevenness elevenpence elevenpenny elevenscore elevenses elevensies eleventeen eleventh eleventy eplerenone fifty-eleven forty-eleven genuine number eleven more than eleven ninety-eleven seventy-eleven sixty-eleven thirty-eleven twenty-eleven eleven-dimensional eleven hundred eleven o'clock eleven plus eleven-plus eleven-striped blind snake film at eleven first eleven grade eleven legs eleven more at eleven number eleven second eleven seven come eleven third eleven
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