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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Eleven \E*lev"en\, noun
1. The sum of ten and one; eleven units or objects.
2. A symbol representing eleven units, as 11 or xi.
3. (Cricket & American Football) 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Eleven \E*lev"en\ ([-e]*l[e^]v"'n), adjective [OE. enleven, AS. endleofan, endlufon, for nleofan; akin to LG. eleve, ["o]lwe, ["o]lwen, D. elf, G. elf, eilf, OHG. einlif, Icel. ellifu, Sw. elfva, Dan. elleve, Goth. ainlif, cf. Lith. v["e]nolika; and fr. the root of E. one + (prob.) a root signifying ''to be left over, remain,'' appearing in E. loan, or perh. in leave, verb (used with an object), life. See {One}, and cf. {Twelve}.] Ten and one added; as, eleven men.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
eleven
adjective: being one more than ten [syn: {11}, {xi}]
noun
1: the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one [syn: {11}, {XI}]
2: a team that plays football [syn: {football team}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "eleven": L, Sexagesima, boxcar, boxcars, cast, company, complement, crew, dozen, duodecimo, eight, eighty, fifteen, fifty, first string, first team, five, five and twenty, fortnight, forty, four and twenty, fourscore, fourscore and ten, fourteen, half a hundred, long dozen, nine, ninety, nonagenarian, octogenarian, platoon, quindecennial, quindecim, quindecima, quindene, reserves, rowing crew, score, second string, second team, septuagenarian, seventy, sexagenarian, sexagenary, sexagesimo-quarto, sixteen, sixteenmo, sixty, sixty-four, sixty-fourmo, squad, string, team, teens, third string, thirteen, thirty-two, thirty-twomo, threescore, threescore and ten, twelve, twelvemo, twenty, twenty-five, twenty-four, twenty-fourmo, two dozen, two weeks, twoscore, varsity
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