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Late morning meal/snack
Elevenses /ᵻ/'/l//ɛ//v//ə//n//z//ᵻ//z/ is a short break taken at around 11:00a. m. to consume a drink or snack. The names and details vary among countries.

Australia and New Zealand have "morning tea" that occurs at approximately 10:30am. This is often a break from work that is formally codified into many workplace agreements. It is standard practice for schools to have a morning tea recess for students, which may be colloquially known as little lunch. Many workplaces organize an event or celebration during morning tea in order to welcome new employees, farewell colleagues who are leaving, to recognise special occasions such as birthdays, or simply as a regular social event for staff. Food will sometimes be provided by the workplace, but often employees will be expected to bring food to share. Farmers, shearers and tradespeople in both countries often refer to this mid morning break as smoko.

In Flemish, this kind of snack is called a tienuurtje, literally a "little (one of) 10 o'clock". A tienuurtje typically consists of one or more cookies or some piece of fruit and may be accompanied by fruit juice or chocolate milk. Many parents give their children a tienuurtje to eat during the mid morning school break. A similar kind of snack for the afternoon break is called a vieruurtje, literally "little (one of) 4 o'clock".

In many Spanish speaking cultures, elevenses is observed under the name las once or la once (in Spanish, once means 'eleven'). However, in Chile it has shifted to the afternoon, sometimes replacing the traditional dinner. In the 2010–2011 National Food Consumption Survey, around 80% of the Chileans reported having once. This is due to once sometimes replacing the traditional dinner in Chile, which only 30% of the population reported having. Here, traditional dinner means a proper meal with vegetables, meat, poultry and fish. La once resembles a light version of British High Tea. An alternative widespread, but unfounded, popular etymology for the word in Chile is that priests (in other versions, workers or women) used the phrase tomar las once (Spanish: "drink the eleven") in reference to the eleven letters of the word Aguardiente to conceal the fact that they were drinking during the day.

In Poland the drugie śniadanie (lit. "second breakfast") is eaten in the midmorning. Rather than a heavy chunk of sausage or other meat, though, like the German second breakfast, Poles prefer a lighter, dessert like pastry or sweet with a hot drink, more similar to the American "coffee break".

In Slovakia, desiata (lit. "tenth", from "tenth hour") can be eaten at or around 10 a. m. It usually consists of a small snack, fruit, or a sandwich, i. e. a lighter meal, so as not to fill the stomach before lunch. In schools, the break between classes around 10 a. m. is referred to as desiatová prestávka (lit. "tenth break", or "break for the tenth") and may be a few minutes longer than other breaks, to give the students time to eat their desiata. Note: although the word desiata is grammatically an ordinal numeral, it is treated as a noun in this context.

In Spain it is not rare to have a short meal break around 11:00a. m., particularly in jobs of intense physical activity; this can range from a hot drink paired with light snacks like pastries to a sandwich, scrambled eggs or a piece of Spanish omelette (also known as a pincho). This meal is sometimes known as almuerzo, although this word is used inconsistently and mostly just means lunch. Also note lunch time in Spain can be as late as 3:00 p. m., which conditions mid morning customs. In the Basque Country in particular it is common to have a mid morning snack consisting of high protein food like eggs, bacon, or cured meat on bread, called hamarretako (literally "10 o'clock (snack)") or hamaiketako ("11 o'clock (snack)").

In Sweden, it is common to drink coffee at 11:00, elvakaffe (lit. coffee at eleven), often with a few biscuits or a light sandwich.

In Switzerland, there is a Znüni ("(Meal) at nine", following the nomenclature of Breakfast (Zmorge), Lunch (Zmittag), afternoon snack at four (Zvieri) and Dinner (Znacht)). The name, despite referring to a specific time, stays the same no matter the actual time of the snack break; especially in schools, it is usually at 10am.

Elevenses, eaten at 11:00 as the name suggests, typically consists of tea or coffee, often with a few biscuits. Sometimes, cake or other snacks are eaten instead.

During the first decades of the 19th century, elevenses consisted of drinking whiskey. In modern times, hourly workers take a break known as a coffee break, typically around 10:00a. m., or in the first third of a work shift Often, this is done in a break room, and small snacks may be eaten as well. It is common for school children to have a short snack break called morning snack. This is offered in the morning before lunch, usually between 9:00 and 11:00.

For elevenses, Winnie the Pooh preferred honey on bread with condensed milk. Paddington Bear often took elevenses at the antique shop on Portobello Road run by his friend Mr Gruber, for which Paddington would buy buns and Mr Gruber would make cocoa. In the Middle earth stories by J. R. R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings), elevenses is one of the many meals that is enjoyed by the Hobbits of the Shire, served daily between second breakfast and luncheon. In addition, a party is implied to be particularly lavish in that food was served "continuously from elevenses until six thirty". In Fireman Sam, Dilys Price regularly took elevenses at Bella Lasagne's café.