Meanings
- nonce wordTwenty-one (21).
Many giglets I have married seen / Ere they forsooth could reach eleventeen.
1600s, Wither, Weakness - colloquialA relatively large number, not precisely specified.
"He fitted about eleventeen thousand people last year."
1919, Sinclair Lewis, Free Air2 more examples
Trust me, I've checked every angle and analyzed a zillion options eleventeen different ways.
2001, Rick D. Ellison, Gamble to Win: CrapsI 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
2004, Brooks Peterson, Cultural Intelligence: A Guide to Working with People from Other Cultures - colloquialA 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.
1988 January 6, Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*ís?
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
- Proto-Germanic*ainaz
- Proto-Indo-European*leyp-
- Proto-Germanic*lībaną
- Proto-Germanic*ainalif
- Proto-West Germanic*ainalif
- Proto-West Germanic*ainalifun
- Old Englishendleofan
- Middle Englishelleven
- Englisheleven
- Proto-Indo-European*déḱm̥
- Proto-Germanic*tehun
- Proto-West Germanic*tehun
- Englisheleventeen
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with eleventeen
Cite this entry
eleventeen. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eleventeen
“eleventeen.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eleventeen. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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