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eleven

eleven

370 1.0
The number after ten and before twelve
  • numeral
  • /ɪˈlɛvən/
translation icon : once
  • I promised to have you home by eleven.
  • eleven years
  • eleven o'clock
  • eleven years later

So I spent those eleven years kneeling and praying.

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Examples

  • I've got a costume fitting at eleven.

    Gable and Lombard (1976)

  • Wait, wait, it's eleven o' clock.

    Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)

  • Eleven thousand casualties in two weeks.

    Here (2024)

  • Therefore, in the current study, only eleven cases were removed from the analyses due to missing data.

    Academic text (2008)

  • I had a meeting with Tuddy around eleven o'clock, and here I am, a back-up guy.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • There were 807 MSLQ surveys completed, eleven of which were discarded as incomplete.

    Academic text (2008)

  • The meeting is scheduled for eleven o'clock tomorrow morning.

  • She scored eleven points in the final game of the season.

  • If you add two and nine, you get eleven.

Synonyms

XI
vseleven
7 3.7

A Roman numeral meaning eleven

is the same number but written as modern digits rather than Roman symbols
11
vseleven
1.0

A number that comes after ten

is the same number but written as a word rather than digits

Idioms

up to eleven
  • Informal
1 9.2

To make something as intense or dramatic as possible

more at eleven
  • Archaic
9.5

A phrase people say to show that more details will come later

Compounds

eleven-plus
  • Archaic
1 8.9

An exam once taken in Britain at about eleven to decide if a child can go to a grammar school

Surface Forms

eleven cardinal word
11 cardinal digit

Etymology

Eleven comes from an old German word that meant one 'left' after ten, a helpful way to remember it is as the 'one' remaining after ten. That's why eleven is the number one more than ten.