Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The ordinal number matching the number 11 in a series.
- noun One of 11 equal parts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Next in order after the tenth: an ordinal number.
- Constituting one of eleven equal parts into which anything is divided: as, the eleventh part of fifty-five is five.
- noun One of eleven equal parts; the quotient of unity divided by eleven: as, five elevenths of fifty-five are twenty-five.
- noun In early English law, an eleventh part of the rents of the year, or of movables, or both, granted or levied by way of tax.
- noun In music:
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Next after the tenth.
- adjective Constituting one of eleven parts into which a thing is divided.
- adjective (Mus.) Of or pertaining to the interval of the octave and the fourth.
- noun The quotient of a unit divided by eleven; one of eleven equal parts.
- noun (Mus.) The interval consisting of ten conjunct degrees; the interval made up of an octave and a fourth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective The
ordinal form of the numbereleven . - noun The person or thing in the eleventh position.
- noun One of eleven equal parts of a whole.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective coming next after the tenth and just before the twelfth in position
- noun position 11 in a countable series of things
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Examples
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-- _Stuart_ was a great eleventh hour tip -- (why _eleventh_ hour I wonder?
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 1, 1892 Various
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"December," said he, "is surely, as its name indicates, the tenth month of the year," and he added thereto, in honor of the emperor, two others which he called the eleventh and twelfth.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 1830
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The censored books used to be read in eleventh grade.
Global Voices in English » Puerto Rico: Debate on Censorship 2009
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Sure our tenth year together was worth celebrating, but I think our eleventh is just as deserving - and more.
Milestones da_lj 2007
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Children are regularly praised to the heavens for picking up their dirty laundry or for coming in eleventh place in a spelling bee.
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Anyway, yesterday Xander exclaimed something like, "God, smart girls are hot!" as Anya figured something out and Willow lamented, "Why couldn't you have discovered that in eleventh grade?"
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Children are regularly praised to the heavens for picking up their dirty laundry or for coming in eleventh place in a spelling bee.
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W hen I was in eleventh grade, I invited a new boyfriend to come to my house after school one day.
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W hen I was in eleventh grade, I invited a new boyfriend to come to my house after school one day.
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The vessel pictured here was known as an eleventh gradient class.
STARSHIP SPOTTER ADAM “MOJO” LEBOWITZ 2001
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