eleven

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
12
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ɪˈlɛvən/ (UK)
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/ɪˈlɛvən/ (UK) · /əˈlɛvən/ · /i-/ · [ɪˈlɛbm̩] · /(ɪ)ˈlɛvən/

Definition of eleven

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

num

  1. The cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve. Represented as 11 in Arabic digits.
    “It was a thunderstormy morning, eleven o'clock, with great dashes of rain pounding against the windows.”
    “I know most girls say that they've known their bezzies since they started primary school together, bonding over handmade Mother's Day cards or a hatred of the egg-and-spoon race, but I've only known Taryn since I was eleven[…]”
    “It was also a work of fiction in which another work of fiction (Gulliver's Travels) was real; that Chinese box of an idea is wonderful to discover when you're eleven.”
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num

  1. The cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve. Represented as 11 in Arabic digits.
    “It was a thunderstormy morning, eleven o'clock, with great dashes of rain pounding against the windows.”
    “I know most girls say that they've known their bezzies since they started primary school together, bonding over handmade Mother's Day cards or a hatred of the egg-and-spoon race, but I've only known Taryn since I was eleven[…]”
    “It was also a work of fiction in which another work of fiction (Gulliver's Travels) was real; that Chinese box of an idea is wonderful to discover when you're eleven.”

noun

  1. A cricket team of eleven players. Hence first eleven - the team of best cricket players (at a school), second eleven - the "B" team, etc.
  2. A football team of eleven players; the starting lineup.
    “Sneeze is well known by all followers of U. of D. athletics for his great work at halfback on the Flyers' eleven for the past four seasons [...]”
  3. (Internet, alt-of, deliberate, misspelling, sarcastic, slang)Deliberate misspelling of !!, used to amplify an exclamation, imitating someone who forgets to press the shift key while typing exclamation points.
    “A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!!?!”
    “B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one!!one!!eleven!!1!”
  4. (US, countable, slang)A number off the charts of a hypothetical scale of one to ten.
  5. (US, countable, slang)A number off the charts of a hypothetical scale of one to ten.

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *lībaną Proto-Germanic *-lif Proto-Germanic *ainalif Proto-West Germanic *ainalif Proto-West Germanic *ainalifun Old English endleofan Middle English elleven English eleven From Middle…

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *lībaną Proto-Germanic *-lif Proto-Germanic *ainalif Proto-West Germanic *ainalif Proto-West Germanic *ainalifun Old English endleofan Middle English elleven English eleven From Middle English elleven, enleven, eleven, from Old English endleofan; from Proto-Germanic *ainalif (“one left”) (i.e., one left over after having already counted to ten), a compound of *ainaz and *-lif, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, remain”). Compare West Frisian alve, Low German ölven, Dutch elf, German elf, Icelandic ellefu, Danish and Norwegian elleve.

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