Meaning of league | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A group or association of cooperating members.
   countable, uncountable
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.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
5. An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
   countable, uncountable
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.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal, uncountable
9. alloy, mixture
10. A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.
    countable, uncountable
11. elastic band
12. A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: 盟).
    countable, uncountable
13. mistletoe
14. An alliance or coalition.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

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.”

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