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Meaning of league

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

league

Pronunciation:/liːɡ/

noun

Definitions

  1. A group or association of cooperating members.

    Example: the League of Nations

  2. An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.

    Example: My favorite sports organizations are the National Football League and the American League in baseball.

  3. (often in the negative) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.

    Example: Forget about dating him; he's out of your league.

  4. A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: 盟).

verb

Definitions

  1. To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.

noun

Definitions

  1. A version of rugby football, played between two teams of thirteen.

league

Pronunciation:/liːɡ/

noun

Definitions

  1. (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).

  2. A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.