Eleven: Definition and part of speech

Eleven

  1. n. The eleven men selected to play on one side in a match, as the representatives of a club or a locality; as, the all-England eleven.
  2. a. Ten and one added; as, eleven men.
  3. n. The sum of ten and one; eleven units or objects.
  4. n. A symbol representing eleven units, as 11 or xi.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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