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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British National Corpus

  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. The United:

    These eleven defendants face charges now because they believed themselves to be above the law, those seeking entry into The United States must pledge fidelity to the law, not break them, or else face criminal prosecution.

  2. Leonard Cohen:

    Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.

  3. Hernan Dario Gomez:

    We have a certain stability and I liked how hard my team worked (against Belgium). One of our assets is the experience that our starting eleven have got by playing together regularly.

  4. 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.

  5. Paddy Spence:

    In terms of big picture, we think the parallel is to look at craft beer. Eleven percent of the beer market is independent, vs. 1 percent of soda, we could be the Sam Adams of soda, that $1 billion brand that changes the way people think.

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