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league

Noun CEFR B1 Frequent
liːɡ

Definitions

  1. A group or association of cooperating members.
  2. The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
  3. A surname.
  4. Ellipsis of League of Nations.
  5. An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
  6. band; suspender (UK), garter (US)
  7. A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.
  8. Ellipsis of rugby league.
  9. alloy, mixture
  10. A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.
  11. elastic band
  12. A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: 盟).
  13. mistletoe
  14. An alliance or coalition.

Equivalents

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Беларускаясаюз
Българскилигасъюз
Cymraegcynghrair
Esperantoleŭgoligo
Eestiliit
עבריתחברליגה
Հայերենլիգա
Bahasa Indonesialigaperserikatanserikat
Italianolega
ქართულილიგა
Қазақ тілілигаодақ
한국어동맹련맹리그연맹
Kurdîlîg
Te Reo Māoririki
Македонскилига
Bahasa Melayuliga
Slovenčinazväz
Slovenščinaliga
Shqiplidhje
Kiswahililigi
Tagalogliga
Türkçefersahlig

Examples

the League of Nations
And let there be / 'Twixt us and them no league, nor amity.”
“My favorite sports organizations are the National Football League and the American League in baseball.”
“He loved watching cricket leagues all around the world.”
Are you going to watch the league tonight?”
Forget about dating him; he's out of your league.”
We're not even in the same league.”
“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.”
The League was hampered by the U.S.'s refusal to join and its member states' unwillingness to impose sanctions on foreign countries.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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