Eleventh
[ɪ'lev(ə)nθ] or [ɪ'lɛvnθ]
Definition
(noun.) position 11 in a countable series of things.
(adj.) coming next after the tenth and just before the twelfth in position .
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Definition
(a.) Next after the tenth; as, the eleventh chapter.
(a.) Constituting one of eleven parts into which a thing is divided; as, the eleventh part of a thing.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the interval of the octave and the fourth.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by eleven; one of eleven equal parts.
(n.) The interval consisting of ten conjunct degrees; the interval made up of an octave and a fourth.
Typist: Maura
Examples
- My old notion of screening the girl, if I could, seemed to have come back on me again, at the eleventh hour. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- You are eleventh, there are but ten chieftains in this community who rank you in prowess. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Now, at this eleventh hour, she was not to be baulked. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The draughtsman who had been already appointed to accompany it has lost heart, and withdrawn at the eleventh hour, and Walter is to fill his place. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In the tenth and eleventh centuries many of their sagas began to be written down in Iceland. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The adventures of the Yellow Diamond begin with the eleventh century of the Christian era. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Before the end of the eleventh century an Arab born at Cordova, the capital of Moorish Spain, c onstructed the Toletan Tables. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Several hundred years later the days were divided into sections which were called hours, such as the sixth hour (noon), the ninth hour (three o’clock), the eleventh hour (five o’clock), etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Even at the eleventh hour, dear Mr. Godfrey--always ready to return good for evil--tried to spare her. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It became only a bitter fanatical struggle again in the eleventh century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So that while the eleventh century was a century of ignorant and confiding men, the thirteenth was an age of knowing and disillusioned men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- By the eleventh, just one week after the surrender, the paroles were completed and the Confederate garrison marched out. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She passed the night of the eleventh in London. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- If any guest failed at the eleventh hour, Todd was asked to dine. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He remembered a Belgian boy in the Eleventh Brigade who had enlisted with five other boys from his village. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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