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Definition of Elevens
1. eleven [n] - See also: eleven
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elevens
Literary usage of Elevens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Commercial Arithmetic by John Henry Moore (1907)
"5 — 2 + 4 = 7, or the 20 = 9 excess of elevens in 425. ... Since the excess of
elevens in all the numbers is equal to the excess of elevens in the sum, ..."
2. Dick's Games of Patience: Or, Solitaire with Cards by William Brisbane Dick (1884)
"The ten and ace, nine and deuce, eight and three, seven and four, and the six
and five, shown in the pattern tableau are all elevens, since the combined ..."
3. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1876)
"HOW TO RESTORE COUNTY elevens. How comes it to pass, at a time when on every
village green and in every public school in England you find hundreds of boys ..."
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