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/ɪlˈɛvən/ /ˈilɛvən/ Listen

adjective

Eleven adj. Ten and one added; as, eleven men.

noun

Eleven n.

The sum of ten and one; eleven units or objects.

A symbol representing eleven units, as 11 or xi.

(Cricket & American Football) The eleven men selected to play on one side in a match, as the representatives of a club or a locality; as, the all-England eleven.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Eleven" Quotes from Famous Books

... that. It will be too heavy for one load; but I will tell you how you can manage it," said Fabens. "We will turn half of it into your other bag, that lies out there by the fence, and you can carry it half at a time, and then get it home before eleven o'clock." ...

— Summerfield - or, Life on a Farm • Day Kellogg Lee

... Dumble before we started, but he said he wasn't going to hurry. "I'll let the men have a proper clean-up and march off about eleven," he decided. ...

— Pushed and the Return Push • George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, (AKA Quex)

... is two years old, diapers should be given up and little drawers used instead. It may be frequently necessary to use diapers at night for several months longer, although if the baby be taken up at ten or eleven o'clock p. m. he will frequently ...

— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... "Great Jehosaphat! it's eleven and after," he exclaimed. "Well, it's time for us to turn in, I reckon, and dream of breakfast. If you'll hold the lamp while I bolt up, I'll show you ...

— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow

... to fetch the key from where she put 'n when she went away in the mornin'. I laughed at her when I went down 'ome. 'Where is he now?' I says. 'Ah, you may laugh,' she says, 'but I got to rouse 'n up about ten o'clock an' git 'n a cup o' tea. He got to be at work again at eleven.' That's how they do's. Begins about ten or eleven o'clock, and don't leave off again afore six or seven, or p'raps nine or ten, next mornin'. Makes days an' quarters for three an' ninepence. I've knowed a many like that come 'ome an' git boozed fust ...

— Change in the Village • (AKA George Bourne) George Sturt

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