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Eleventeen vs Eleventeenth - What's the difference?

eleventeen | eleventeenth |

As a numeral eleventeen

is (nonce word) twenty-one ().

As an adjective eleventeenth is

the ordinal form of the number eleventeen.

eleventeen

English

Numeral

(head)
  • (nonce word) Twenty-one ().
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1600's , author=Wither , title=Weakness , passage=Many giglets I have married seen / Ere they forsooth could reach eleventeen.}}
  • (colloquial) A relatively large number, not precisely specified.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1919 , author=Sinclair Lewis , title=Free Air , passage="He fitted about eleventeen thousand people last year."}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2001 , author=Rick D. Ellison , title=Gamble to Win: Craps , passage=Trust me, I've checked every angle and analyzed a zillion options eleventeen different ways.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2004 , author=Brooks Peterson , title=Cultural Intelligence: A Guide to Working with People from Other Cultures , passage=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}}

    Synonyms

    * (indefinite number) umpteen

    Related terms

    * eleventy

    eleventeenth

    English

    Adjective

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  • The ordinal form of the number eleventeen.