eleven
IPA: ɪɫˈɛvʌn
noun
- (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.
- (soccer) A football team of eleven players; the starting lineup.
- (countable, US, slang) A number off the charts of a hypothetical scale of one to ten.
- An exceptional specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.
- A very high level of intensity.
- (Internet, slang, sarcastic) Deliberate misspelling of !!. Used to amplify an exclamation, imitating someone who forgets to press the shift key while typing exclamation points.
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Examples of "eleven" in Sentences
- “Claudia and Paul” is in eleven sections (including an Introduction and a Closing).
- Why take fifteen months to enact a piece of legislation if you can get it done in eleven?
- Cuevas who successfully defended his title eleven times before losing by a second round TKO to
- _He was born eleven ages before the siege of Troy, and he is said to have lived nine ages; and according to some eleven_.
- It consists of thirty-eight lines in Cramer’s edition: of which Possinus omits eleven; and Matthaei also, eleven; — _but not the same eleven_.
- You may now vote online until April 14, 2010, for your favorite blog (s) in eleven languages and various categories, including freedom of expression and climate change.
- "I crissed-crossed the country twenty-two (22) times in eleven (11) months and had a substantial role in fashioning the most complex of settlements" in Vioxx litigation, notes Los Angeles attorney Thomas Girardi in making his case for why his experience qualifies him for a lead post.
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