eleventeen
numEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *lībaną Proto-Germanic *-lif Proto-Germanic *ainalif Proto-West Germanic *ainalif Proto-West Germanic *ainalifun Old English endleofan Middle English elleven English eleven Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ Proto-Germanic *tehun Proto-West Germanic *tehunder. Anglian Old English -tēne Middle English -tene English -teen English eleventeen From eleven + -teen.
Definitions
Twenty-one (21).
- Many giglets I have married seen / Ere they forsooth could reach eleventeen.
A relatively large number, not precisely specified.
- "He fitted about eleventeen thousand people last year."
- Trust me, I've checked every angle and analyzed a zillion options eleventeen different ways.
- I can make the locals laugh at my attempts in a few other languages, such as Swedish, but I'm certainly not like the average European who seems to speak "eleventeen" languages
A nonsense number.
- Hobbes: Ooh, that's a tricky one. You have to use calculus and imaginary numbers for this. Calvin: Imaginary numbers?! Hobbes: You know, eleventeen, thirty-twelve, all those.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for eleventeen. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA