Meaning

3 senses

  1. The person or thing in the eleventh position.

  2. One of eleven equal parts of a whole.

    одиннадцатая

  3. The note eleven scale degrees from the root of a chord.

More definitions
  • position 11 in a countable series of things

Examples

20 sentences

  1. I'm an eleventh grader.

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  2. I'm in the eleventh grade.

    ruЯ учусь в одиннадцатом классе. — odexed

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  3. The eleventh month of the year is November.

    Одинадцятий місяць року — листопад. — mhr

    ruОдиннадцатый месяц года — ноябрь. — marafon

    deDer elfte Monat des Jahres ist der November. — mhr

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  4. This is his eleventh hour.

    Це його останній шанс. — ascolto

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  5. In the end, they finished eleventh.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
one of eleven equal parts of a whole:

Origin

From Middle English elleventhe, from elleven + -the, equivalent to eleven + -th. This re-f

From Middle English elleventhe, from elleven + -the, equivalent to eleven + -th. This re-formation replaced inherited forms such as ellefte, enlefte, from Old English endlefta, from Proto-Germanic *ainaliftô.

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Forms

plural: elevenths
Singulareleventh
Pluralelevenths

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
elevatorA2elevenA1elfelicit

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