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eleventy

/ɪˈlɛvənti/

eleventy numeral: the number 110, 11 × 10.

Numeral

eleventy

  1. (informal) The number 110, 11 × 10.
    • Compounds with other numerals: eleventy-one (111), eleventy-six (116), eleventy first (one-hundred and eleventh), etc.
    • [Bilbo] announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday
      […]
      “Today is my one hundred and eleventh birthday: I am eleventy-one today!”1955 (1974), JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, pages 43, 54
  2. (colloquial) An indefinite large number.
    • No grown-up people, no babies, no girls. It was a world of boys, eleventy and a hundred strong.May 1921, Margaret Wilson, “A Little Boy's Utopia”, in The Atlantic Monthly, page 670
    • People used to think that the first eleventy letters of the DNA message would comprise Gene 1.2005, Robert M Sapolsky, Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals, page 19

Examples of eleventy in a sentence

  • without having to go back through the thousand and eleventy-three days to alter the plan1980, Janet Caudle, State and Interstate Fishery Jurisdiction: Problems and Progress : Proceedings of a Conference in Raleigh, North...
  • Eight-Oh-Two-Dot-Eleventy Something [= 802.11a, 802.11b, etc.]2007, Doug Lowe, Networking for Dummies, page 174:
  • According to a study by me, this generates a multibillion facepalm for the UK economy, making everyone who considers it at least eleventy hundred pounds unhappier.2012 July 3, Marina Hyde, “A lesson in Olymp-o-nomics”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 19 May 2025:

Origin of eleventy

From eleven + -ty, from Old English hundendleftiġ (also spelled hundendleofantiġ, hundendlyftiġ, and hundælleftiġ). See twelfty for more. Popularized in the 20th century by J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Questions about eleventy

What does eleventy mean?
Eleventy means the number 110, 11 × 10.
How do you use eleventy in a sentence?
without having to go back through the thousand and eleventy-three days to alter the plan
What part of speech is eleventy?
Eleventy is a numeral.
How do you pronounce eleventy?
Eleventy is pronounced /ɪˈlɛvənti/.

Words near eleventy in the dictionary

  1. Eleventh Month
  2. Eleventh Night
  3. eleventh-hour
  4. eleventhly
  5. elevenths
  6. eleventy
  7. eleves
  8. elevon
  9. elevons
  10. elevs.
  11. elex

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