As a numeral eleventy
is (humorous) the number , 11 × 10.
As a proper noun ten is
tenes.
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. }}
*
ten
Numeral
(head)
(cardinal) A numerical value equal to ; the number occurring after nine and before eleven, represented in Roman numerals as X, in Arabic numerals (and base ten) as 10, and in the hexadecimal system (base 16) as A.
Related terms
* tenth
Noun
(uncountable) The number following nine.
(countable) ( ) The card between the nine and jack in a given suit.
(countable) A monetary denomination worth ten units.
(countable, US, slang) A superb specimen.
# (countable, slang) A beautiful or sexy person; a person whom one gives the highest possible rating on a 1-to-10 scale of attractiveness.
See also
*
Derived terms
(Derived terms)
* five-and-ten
* five will get you ten
* hang ten
* ten a penny
* ten-cent/ten-cent store
* ten-eighty
* ten foot pole
* ten-four
* ten-gallon hat
* ten o'clock/ten-o'clock
* ten-pin/ten-pin bowling
* ten pound tourist
* ten-pounder
* ten-speed
* top ten
* Ten Commandments
Related terms
* tenner
* tenfold
* tenth
Synonyms
* (Roman numerals): X
Coordinate terms
** Previous : nine ()
** Next : eleven ()
See also
* deca-
