league
see also: League
Pronunciation
League
Proper noun
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see also: League
Pronunciation
- IPA: /liːɡ/
league (plural leagues)
- A group or association of cooperating members.
- the League of Nations
- And let there be / 'Twixt us and them no league, nor amity.
- An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
- My favorite sports organizations are the National Football League and the American League in baseball.
- (informal) rugby league
- Are you going to watch the league tonight?
- (often in the negative) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.
- Forget about dating him; he's out of your league.
- We're not even in the same league.
- A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: 盟).
- French: ligue
- German: Liga, Bund
- Italian: lega
- Portuguese: aliança, liga
- Russian: ли́га
- Spanish: alianza, liga
league (leagues, present participle leaguing; past and past participle leagued)
- To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.
- Portuguese: associar-se
- Spanish: asociarse
league (plural leagues)
- (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
, History of Louisiana (PG), p. 47 - Seven leagues above the mouth of the river we meet with two other passes, as large as the middle one by which we entered.
- 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “The Charge of the Light Brigade”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 1013215631 ↗, stanza 1, page 151 ↗:
- Half a league, half a league, / Half a league onward, / All in the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred.
- A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.
- French: lieue
- German: Wegstunde, Meile (obsolete), Leuge (obsolete)
- Italian: lega
- Portuguese: légua
- Russian: лье
- Spanish: legua
League
Proper noun
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