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Borrowed from English eleven.

eleven

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

English numbers (edit)

← 10 11 12 →
Cardinal: eleven Ordinal: eleventh Abbreviated ordinal: 11th Adverbial: eleven times Multiplier: elevenfold Latinate multiplier: undecuple Germanic collective: elevensome Greek or Latinate collective: hendecad Greek collective prefix: hendeca- Latinate collective prefix: undeca- Fractional: eleventh Number of musicians: undecet

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.

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.

the cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve

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, American football) A football team of eleven players; the starting lineup.
    • 1926, J. Conoboy, “Walter Achiu: Chinese-Hawaiian Athlete Will Be Leader of Flyers On Cinder Path This Year”, in The Dayton Herald‎[1], page 21:
      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 [...]
  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.

eleven

  1. third-person plural present indicative of elevar

eleven c

  1. definite singular of elev

Lexicalization of the obsolete form of the present participle élő (“living”),[1] originally an adverb, compare hirtelen, meztelen.[2]

eleven (comparative elevenebb, superlative legelevenebb)

  1. (literary or archaic) alive
    Synonym: élő
  2. lively
    Synonyms: élénk, fürge
  1. ^ eleven in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
  2. ^ eleven in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2025.

eleven

  1. alternative form of elleven

eleven m

  1. definite singular of elev

eleven m

  1. definite singular of elev

eleven

  1. inflection of elevar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

eleven

  1. definite singular of elev

Tok Pisin numbers (edit)

← 10 11 12 →
Cardinal: eleven

From English eleven.

eleven

  1. eleven

Used when counting; see also wanpela ten wan.

Tok Pisin cardinal numbers from 1 to 99

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