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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

... his train arrived at Euston at eleven-thirty. They ought to be here quite soon now, unless, of course, anything has happened to the car—but still, Sylvia drives very carefully. They taught her to do lots of things like that on the films, you know—they're awfully ...

— I'll Leave It To You - A Light Comedy In Three Acts • Noel Coward

... justify the assertion that the safe navigation of that river is, in the fullest sense of the term, a national and not a local interest, bearing as it does on its bosom an essential portion of the industrial produce of eleven different States ...

— Lands of the Slave and the Free - Cuba, The United States, and Canada • Henry A. Murray

... out his watch and said to Croustillac, "if the wind is good at eleven o'clock, we might be under sail and en route for the coast of Cornwall, where glory awaits ...

— A Romance of the West Indies • Eugene Sue

... "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

... his history shows it; and his death is of a piece with the fierce splendour of his life. Having finished the bloody work of crime, and magnanimity, and horror, he thinks that, for himself, suicide would be too easy an exit. He has noticed a poor man toiling by the wayside, for eleven children; a great reward has been promised for the head of the Robber; the gold will nourish that poor drudge and his boys, and Moor goes forth to give it them. We part with him in pity and sorrow; looking less at his misdeeds than ...

— The Life of Friedrich Schiller - Comprehending an Examination of His Works • Thomas Carlyle

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