eleven

Meanings

1. 1
   num

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

   It was a thunderstormy morning, eleven o'clock, with great dashes of rain pounding against the windows.

2. 2
   noun

   A football team of eleven players; the starting lineup.

   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. 3
   noun

   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!!?!

4. 4
   adj

   being one more than ten

5. 5
   noun

   a team that plays football

6. 6
   noun

   the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one

7. 7
   noun

   A cricket team of eleven players. Hence first eleven - the team of best cricket players (at a school), second eleven - the "B" team, etc.

8. 8
   noun

   A number off the charts of a hypothetical scale of one to ten.

Etymology

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.