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eleven
[ ih-lev-uhn ]
noun
- a cardinal number, ten plus one.
- a symbol for this number, such as 11 or XI.
- a set or group of 11 people or things, such as a football or soccer team:
The new forward plays a pivotal role in the Manchester eleven.
- none elevens or 11s. Also called eleven lines. Informal. a pair of vertical wrinkles that commonly develop between the eyebrows; frown lines:
My dermatologist said he could fix my elevens with no injections or plastic surgery.
adjective
- amounting to one more than ten in number.
eleven
/ ɪˈlɛvən /
noun
- the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one
- a numeral 11, XI, etc, representing this number
- something representing, represented by, or consisting of 11 units
- functioning as singular or plural a team of 11 players in football, cricket, hockey, etc
- Also calledeleven o'clock eleven hours after noon or midnight
determiner
- amounting to eleven
eleven chances
- ( as pronoun )
have another eleven today
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Example Sentences
One morning at about eleven, he announces his intention as though it's truly an unusual thought: “Let's have a little drink.”
Yet the undocumented population remains upwards eleven million.
Eleven thousand aircraft would bomb preparation and give them air cover.
I mean literally find him, still there, an eleven-year-old boy, cold and trembling, with nowhere else to run.
Eleven children under the age of 13 have been shot in the city of Milwaukee so far this year.
But the nasty part of the whole thing was, that Haggard had won eleven thousand pounds from a weak-headed boy.
Porter and Poindexter are within eleven miles of the place, and Duffield expects to be attacked by morning.
It was eleven o'clock before the river was crossed and the headquarters of Colonel Guitar reached.
So it was decided, and the little force took up the march for Brown's Springs, eleven miles away.
We were then nine million small arm still to the good having spent eleven million.
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