Meaning of eleven in English

eleven

number

/əˈlev.ən/ uk

/ɪˈlev.ən/

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the number 11:

There are eleven girls in my class and ten boys.

My younger brother is eleven.

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Sophie took her first steps when she was eleven months old.
I was so exhausted I slept for eleven solid hours.
She got her very own pony as a birthday present when she was eleven.
Two 11s are 22.
Think of a number between eleven and 20.

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eleven

noun [ C, + sing/pl verb ]

/əˈlev.ən/ uk

/ɪˈlev.ən/

a team of eleven players, for example in soccer, field hockey, or cricket:

starting eleven He comes back into the starting eleven after an injury.

first eleven She's a regular in the first eleven.

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He was senior athletics champion, and played in the cricket eleven.
Many young players still find themselves in county second elevens.
They were not in the eleven at the start of the season, but came through because of injuries.

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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Cricket

Hockey

Football/soccer

(Definition of eleven from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

eleven | Intermediate English

eleven

number

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11:

The child is eleven.

an eleven-story building

(Definition of eleven from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of eleven

eleven

He needed only eleven words to tell his whole life story.

From Huffington Post

I also co-founded the organization eleven years ago.

From NPR

Eleven of the 126 people working on the rig are missing and presumed dead.

From NOLA.com

While women currently have eleven different options for birth control men have just two: vasectomy or condoms, and only one of those is reversible.

From The Verge

Eleven of them found significant differences between majors.

From The Atlantic

Eleven years of war has worked to no one's advantage.

From Foreign Policy

He led his team to eleven final fours two national titles and 879.

From ABC News

Every one of the "eleven million" has a story.

From Huffington Post

Every one of the "eleven million" has a story, and this country needs to hear them, now more than ever.

From Huffington Post

Of course, this can vary by utility, with some utilities earning rates of return of closer to eleven percent.

From ThinkProgress

There were eleven destroyed vehicles around the school.

From The New York Review of Books

Eleven ounces of seamlessly combined strips of meat including: brisket, skirt and fillet beef.

From Baltimore Sun

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