league
Meanings
noun
- A group or association of cooperating members.
- An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
- Ellipsis of rugby league.
- A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.
- A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: 盟).
- An alliance or coalition.
verb
- To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.
adj
- Playing in the The Football League or the Premier League, the top four divisions of English football
noun
- The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
- A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.
name
- A surname.
name
- Ellipsis of League of Nations.
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Etymology
From Middle English liege, ligg, lige (“a pact between governments, an agreement, alliance”), from Middle French ligue, from Italian lega, from the verb legare, from Latin ligō (“to tie”).
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