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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
eleventh
adjective
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eleventh

Eleventh \E*lev"enth\, a. [Cf. AS. endlyfta. See Eleven.]

  1. Next after the tenth; as, the eleventh chapter.

  2. Constituting one of eleven parts into which a thing is divided; as, the eleventh part of a thing.

  3. (Mus.) Of or pertaining to the interval of the octave and the fourth.

Eleventh

Eleventh \E*lev"enth\, n.

  1. The quotient of a unit divided by eleven; one of eleven equal parts.

  2. (Mus.) The interval consisting of ten conjunct degrees; the interval made up of an octave and a fourth.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
eleventh

late 14c., eleventhe, superseding earlier ellefte (c.1300), enlefte (early 13c.), from Old English endleofta; see eleven + -th (1). Eleventh hour "last moment, just before it is too late" is in Old English, from the parable of the laborers in the vineyard (Matt. xx:1-16); as an adjective by 1829.

Wiktionary
eleventh

a. The ordinal form of the number eleven. n. 1 The person or thing in the eleventh position. 2 One of eleven equal parts of a whole. 3 (context music English) The note eleven scale degrees from the root of a chord.

WordNet
eleventh

n. position 11 in a countable series of things

eleventh

adj. coming next after the tenth and just before the twelfth in position [syn: 11th]

Wikipedia
Eleventh

In music or music theory an eleventh is the note eleven scale degrees from the root of a chord and also the interval between the root and the eleventh. The interval can be also described as a compound fourth, spanning an octave plus a fourth.

Since there are only seven degrees in a diatonic scale the eleventh degree is the same as the subdominant.

The eleventh is considered highly dissonant with the third.

A perfect eleventh is an eleventh which spans exactly 17 semitones. It can be also described as a compound perfect fourth, spanning an octave plus a perfect fourth.

Usage examples of "eleventh".

Now, in the eleventh hour of the election, Hamilton lashed out in a desperate effort to destroy Adams, the leading candidate of his own party.

It was the eleventh ahau katun in which it ended with those called Mayas.

On the side of the land, they were pressed by the Almohades, the fanatic princes of Morocco, while the sea-coast was open to the enterprises of the Greeks and Franks, who, before the close of the eleventh century, had extorted a ransom of two hundred thousand pieces of gold.

One such body of reformers, the Almoravides, invaded Spain in the eleventh century and carried all before it.

Paris, this eleventh of November, your devoted husband, Robert Appleton, Knight.

October came word from Labienus that Caesar had left Italian Gaul to journey with his usual fleetness all the way to the stronghold of Nemetocenna in the lands of the Belgic Atrebates, where Trebonius was quartered with the Fifth, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Legions.

Nemetocenna in the lands of the Belgic Atrebates, where Trebonius was quartered with the Fifth, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Legions.

She was back at the Biltmore that evening, Saturday the eleventh, met Sally Stinson and Johnny Vogel in the lobby, tricked with Johnny until shortly after midnight, then took off.

I let them out through the Eleventh Gate into the void of our plastic-yard-sheet world, and deep in my flesh-strips I almost felt tears turn to rain as three things wandered away, two Boxheads and between them a weird plump scarecrow, dazed, blinking and, I suspected, sore afraid.

Transcripts were transferred and Betsy, Glover, Brooks, Rollins, and Little Becky were registered for fall enrollment at the Towne High School in twelfth, eleventh, and ninth grades.

Receiving an ordinary elementary education at a school, taught by an enthusiastic Cameronian, he was apprenticed in his eleventh year to his eldest brother James as a stone-mason.

Calls, third hour before noon, eleventh day of Frugora, Anno Civitas ten thousand three hundred and forty nine.

Scotland, the ancient Culdee church founded by Columba and his followers, far removed from direct papal influence, was still keeping the seventh-day Sabbath in the eleventh century.

Not until the large payments of danegeld by England at the end of the tenth century and the first half of the eleventh did Anglo-Saxon coins become plentiful.

Hell, this is the eleventh year of the Seventh Aceall that chastity and everlasting fidelity stuff left by the Dogtown gate before you and I were born.