twenty-eleven

English · Thesaurus

AI In plain words

Writing a short explanation…

Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.

twenty-eleven

Where it comes from

From humorous use of eleven to continue counting the twenties.

adjective twenty-leven · twenty-'leven

  1. US, dialectal, informal, not comparable Very many; several dozen; quite a lot. I ask dem for some sup; dey give me littel bit of bread and sheese—I say I was hope I shall be put to bed agreeable—dey put me in a garret! and all de night twenty-eleven rats shall run 'bout, as if to play at a blindman's bluff.

    Similar: countless, legion, eighty-eleven, eleventeen, eleventy, feelefold, fifty-eleven, forty-eleven, manifold, many, manyfold, morefold

Talk about this word

Cite this
MLA

"twenty-eleven." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/twenty-eleven. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

twenty-eleven. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/twenty-eleven

Chicago

"twenty-eleven." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/twenty-eleven.

BibTeX
@misc{twenty_eleven_2026,
  title = {twenty-eleven},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/twenty-eleven},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}