Eleventy is a derived term of eleventh.
As an adjective eleventh
is the ordinal form of the number eleven.
As a noun eleventh
is the person or thing in the eleventh position.
As a numeral eleventy is
the number 110, 11 × 10.
eleventh
English
Adjective
(head)
The ordinal form of the number eleven.
Synonyms
* 11th, 11th; (in names of monarchs and popes ) XI
Noun
(
en noun)
The person or thing in the eleventh position.
One of eleven equal parts of a whole.
(music) The note eleven scale degrees from the root of a chord.
eleventy
English
Numeral
(
head)
(humorous) The number , 11 × 10.
- Compounds with other numerals: eleventy'''-one'' (= 111), '''''eleventy'''-six'' (= 116), '''''eleventy -first'' (= one-hundred and eleventh), ''etc.
- {{quote-book
, title=The Fellowship of the Ring
, author=JRR Tolkien
, page=43, 54
, year=1955 (1974)
, passage=[Bilbo] announced that he would shortly be celebrating his
eleventy-first' birthday
- {{quote-book
, title=State and Interstate Fishery Jurisdiction: Problems and Progress : Proceedings of a Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, 1979 : October 29-31, 1979
, author=Janet Caudle
, page=149
, year=1980
, passage=without having to go back through the thousand and eleventy-three days to alter the plan }}
- {{quote-book
, title=Networking for Dummies
, author=Doug Lowe
, page=174
, year=2007
, passage=Eight-Oh-Two-Dot-Eleventy Something [= 802.11a, 802.11b, etc. ]}}
(colloquial) An indefinite large number.
- {{quote-book
, title=The Atlantic Monthly
, chapter=A Little Boy's Utopia
, author=Margaret Wilson
, page=670
, year=May 1921
, passage=No grown-up people, no babies, no girls. It was a world of boys, eleventy and a hundred strong. }}
- {{quote-book
, title=Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
, author=Robert M Sapolsky
, page=19
, year=2005
, passage=People used to think that the first eleventy letters of the DNA message would comprise Gene 1. }}
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