Eleven

/ɪˈlɛvən/ · numeral

Meaning

The cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve. Represented as 11 in Arabic digits..

Definitions by Sense

1. The cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve. Represented as 11 in Arabic digits.
2. (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.
3. (soccer, American football) A football team of eleven players; the starting lineup.
4. (Internet, slang, sarcastic) Deliberate misspelling of !!, used to amplify an exclamation, imitating someone who forgets to press the shift key while typing exclamation points.
5. (countable, US, slang) A number off the charts of a hypothetical scale of one to ten.

Example Sentences

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.

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 [...]

A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!!?!

B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one!!one!!eleven!!1!

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• Arabic numerals
• Roman numerals
• leven
• 'leven
• leben
• elevens

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