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eleventh

eleventh

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A person or thing that comes after the tenth in a series
  • noun
  • /ɪˈlɛvənθ/
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  • On the eleventh of March the landlord of the Dog and Duck had a visit from the local bobby.

Examples

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

11th
vseleventh
228 1.0

The place after the tenth and before the twelfth in a series

is written as the full word rather than as numerals

Idioms

The latest possible time before a deadline or event

The last moment before a deadline when it is almost too late

Compounds

7.4

A nerve that helps move the head and lift the shoulder

A decision someone makes at the last possible moment before a deadline

A last-minute attempt to finish something before time runs out

Surface Forms

eleventh singular
elevenths plural

Morphology

eleventh = eleven (transparent) = eleven + th

Standard ordinal formation from the cardinal number 'eleven' with the productive suffix '-th', yielding the expected meaning '11th'.

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.