eleven

Alternative forms

• Eleven, ELEVEN

Etymology

Borrowed from English eleven.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [iˈlɛvən]

Noun

eleven

1. (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony code for 11, used only with o'clock to indicate direction

Alternative forms

• Arabic numerals: 11
• Roman numerals: XI

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪˈlɛvən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈlɛvən/, /i-/
• (casually also) IPA^(key): [ɪˈlɛbm̩]
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /(i)ˈlɛvan/, /-ɨn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛvən

Numeral

eleven

1. The cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve. Represented as 11 in Arabic digits.
   • 1973, Jane Roberts, The education of Oversoul Seven, page 8:

     It was a thunderstormy morning, eleven o'clock, with great dashes of rain pounding against the windows.

   • 2011, Helen Bailey, Knowing Me, Knowing You:

     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 […]

   • 2014, Terry Pratchett, A Slip of the Keyboard, page 169:

     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

eleven (plural elevens)

1. (cricket) 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. (soccer) A football team of eleven players; the starting lineup.
3. (Internet, slang, sarcastic) 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. (countable, US, slang) A number off the charts of a hypothetical scale of one to ten.
   1. An exceptional specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.
   2. A very high level of intensity.

Verb

eleven

1. third-person plural present indicative of elevar

Noun

eleven c

1. definite singular of elev