Eleven
[ɪ'lev(ə)n] or [ɪ'lɛvn]
Definition
(noun.) the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one.
(adj.) being one more than ten .
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Definition
(a.) Ten and one added; as, eleven men.
(n.) The sum of ten and one; eleven units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing eleven units, as 11 or xi.
(n.) 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.
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Definition
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.
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Examples
- Punctually at eleven o'clock, the carriages began to arrive. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- No sound was heard from the room until eleven-twenty, the hour of the return of Lady Maynooth and her daughter. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was between ten and eleven o'clock when Mrs. Micawber rose to replace her cap in the whitey-brown paper parcel, and to put on her bonnet. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It may be rendered into English thus: May your celestial majesty outlive the sun, eleven moons and a half! Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Beneath the nearest lamp-post he glanced at his watch and saw that the time was close on eleven. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The other was as certainly Georgiana: but not the Georgiana I remembered--the slim and fairy-like girl of eleven. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Ghostly deep as is the stillness of this convent, it is only eleven. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- We passed a few sad hours, until eleven o'clock, when the trial was to commence. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- From eleven o'clock until luncheon, and from luncheon until dinner at six in the evening, the employments and amusements were various. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A four-wheeler was at the door at eleven, and in it we drove to a spot at the other side of Hammersmith Bridge. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is past eleven now. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- At eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door and looked back. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- At that time Wilbur was eleven and Orville seven years old. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It's past eleven, and I must really ask you to ring for a cab. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Ten minutes, good, past eleven. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Heinkel one elevens. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Two hundred and fifty miles an hour for those one-elevens anyway. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- These three were Heinkel one-elevens, twin-motor bombers. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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