league
nounverbadjectivenouncommon in dialogue
- //liːɡ//
A group or association of cooperating members.
noun
- 1
A group or association of cooperating members.
the League of Nations
And let there be / 'Twixt us and them no league, nor amity.
- 2
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.
He loved watching cricket leagues all around the world.
- 3
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.
- 4
A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: 盟).
- 5
An alliance or coalition.
- 6
Variant of rugby leagueinformalEllipsis of rugby league.
Are you going to watch the league tonight?
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”).
verb
- 1
To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.
Out of my sight, thou Serpent, that name best Befits thee with him leagu'd.
I believe that all the Bohemians and the great folks in Paris are so leagued together, that they are afraid of one another, and the people receive all the buffets of their disagreeings.
adjective
- 1
Playing in the The Football League or the Premier League, the top four divisions of English football
noun
- 1
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."
Seven leagues above the mouth of the river we meet with two other passes, as large as the middle one by which we entered.
To this time the Dutch had kept two garrisons in the North of Formosa, one of which was at Fort Kelang, taken from the Spaniards ; the other was at a place called Tamsui, about ten leagues to the westward of Kelang.
Half a league, half a league, / Half a league onward, / All in the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred.
- 2
A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.
Etymology
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.
Forms
- plural
- leagues
- past tense
- leagued
- past participle
- leagued
- present participle
- leaguing
- third person singular
- leagues
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