ELEVENTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eleventh mean? 

• ELEVENTH (noun)
  The noun ELEVENTH has 1 sense:

1. position 11 in a countable series of things

  Familiarity information: ELEVENTH used as a noun is very rare.

• ELEVENTH (adjective)
  The adjective ELEVENTH has 1 sense:

1. coming next after the tenth and just before the twelfth in position

  Familiarity information: ELEVENTH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELEVENTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Position 11 in a countable series of things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("eleventh" is a kind of...):

rank (relative status)

• ELEVENTH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming next after the tenth and just before the twelfth in position

Synonyms:

11th; eleventh

Similar:

ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)

 Context examples 

The eleventh house rules your community and fan-base, so if you are active in social media, your followers are likely to explode this year in numbers.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A unit of measurement equal to 10 to the eleventh power of entities per unit of volume equal to one liter.

(Hundred Billion Per Liter, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The eleventh month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

(November, NCI Thesaurus)

The designation for each member of the eleventh largest human autosomal chromosome pair.

(Chromosome 11, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-neoplastic or neoplastic disorder affecting the accessory nerve (eleventh cranial nerve).

(Accessory Nerve Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by involvement of the accessory nerve (eleventh cranial nerve).

(Accessory Nerve Disorder, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

The Siwashes had waited on the white people until the eleventh hour, and then departed.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

This may be so, for when the Magyars conquered the country in the eleventh century they found the Huns settled in it.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He supplicated strength for the weak-hearted; guidance for wanderers from the fold: a return, even at the eleventh hour, for those whom the temptations of the world and the flesh were luring from the narrow path.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I was in my eleventh year when we moved from Portsmouth to Friar’s Oak, a little Sussex village to the north of Brighton, which was recommended to us by my uncle, Sir Charles Tregellis, one of whose grand friends, Lord Avon, had had his seat near there.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)