eleventh
- noun
- /ɪˈlɛvənθ/
- On the eleventh of March the landlord of the Dog and Duck had a visit from the local bobby.
Examples
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My motley constituency came in early on the eleventh of July, the day Skylab was predicted to fall.
Fiction book (1995) -
The events on the eleventh of Sept. were definitely not as they were made to appear.
Blog text (26) -
Father set the date for the eleventh of January, the day after my brother's birthday.
Fiction book (1991) -
Let's go to Corner Bar, at West Fourth and West Eleventh.
Fiction book (2000) -
The accused stand before you now, on this day, the eleventh of August, 1942.
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Heather just finished the tenth grade, and she'll be going into eleventh next year.
Fiction book (2002) -
Note that the weight listed here, which was accurate on the eleventh, is identical to the freight receipt that I signed back on the sixth.
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Calabresi and Melamed on the View of the Cathedral almost made the top ten, coming in eleventh with a total of 542 citations.
Academic text (1997) -
Further, the 1993 World Competitiveness Report ranked Canada's competitiveness at eleventh among industrialized nations, unchanged from 1992.
Academic text (1993) -
On the eleventh of July, we will celebrate my father's birthday.
Synonyms
The place after the tenth and before the twelfth in a series
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Etymology
Eleventh comes from the number eleven, which originally meant 'one left' after ten, and it adds the ending -th that shows order. So eleventh is the person or thing that comes just after the tenth.