league
Meanings
Plural: leagues
Noun
- an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members
- an association of states or organizations or individuals for common action
- an obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles)
- A group or association of cooperating members.
- An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
- Ellipsis of rugby league.
- A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.
- A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: 盟).
- An alliance or coalition.
- 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.
Verb
- unite to form a league
- To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.
Adj
- Playing in the The Football League or the Premier League, the top four divisions of English football
Origin / 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”).
Synonyms
Antonyms
non-league
Scrabble Score: 7
league is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordleague is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
league is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 10
league is a valid Words With Friends word