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      league
      noun
      (sports) An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
      A group or association of cooperating members.
      (chiefly in the negative) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.
      (military) An alliance or coalition.
      (measurement) 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.
      A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: 盟).
      A surname.
      (informal, rugby, uncountable) Ellipsis of rugby league. [A version of rugby football, played between two teams of thirteen.]
      Ellipsis of League of Nations. [An international organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the First World War. Its goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation, diplomacy and improving global quality of life. The predecessor of the United Nations.]
      verb
      (ambitransitive) To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.
      adjective
      (British, soccer) Playing in the The Football League or the Premier League, the top four divisions of English football
      Roots
      ligoleag- · Latin · bind
      Synonyms for league
      conferencenclubnassociationnfederationnunionndivisionnguildn
      Words related to league
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