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League
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- 1 Playing in the The Football League or the Premier League, the top four divisions of English football British, not-comparable
- 1 A surname.
- 2 Ellipsis of League of Nations. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
"The League was hampered by the U.S.'s refusal to join and its member states' unwillingness to impose sanctions on foreign countries."
- 1 A group or association of cooperating members. countable, uncountable
"the League of Nations"
- 2 The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
"Thenne kynge Mark and sir Dynadan rode forth a four leges englysshe tyl that they came to a brydge where houed a knyght on horsbak armed and redy to Iuste. "Then King Mark and Sir Dinadan rode forth a four leagues English, till that they came to a bridge where hoved a knight on horseback, armed and ready to joust.""
- 3 an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members wordnet
- 4 An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship. countable, uncountable
"My favorite sports organizations are the National Football League and the American League in baseball."
- 5 A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.
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- 6 an association of states or organizations or individuals for common action wordnet
- 7 Ellipsis of rugby league. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal, uncountable
"Are you going to watch the league tonight?"
- 8 an obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles) wordnet
- 9 A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level. countable, uncountable
"Forget about dating him; he's out of your league."
- 10 A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: 盟). countable, uncountable
- 11 An alliance or coalition. countable, uncountable
- 1 To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support. ambitransitive
"Out of my sight, thou Serpent, that name best Befits thee with him leagu'd."
- 2 unite to form a league wordnet
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 (“I tie”).
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 (“I tie”).
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 (“I tie”).
From Middle English lege (“league”), from Late Latin leuca, leuga (“the Gaulish mile”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *lougā (compare Middle Breton leau, lew, Breton lev / leo (“league”)). Doublet of legua.
English surname, perhaps a spelling variant of Leake.
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