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league

noun

  1. former unit of distance, hour's walk
  2. unit of length
  3. group of sports teams that compete together
  4. organization of people or other entities that work together
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verb

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /liːɡ/

adj

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”).

  1. Playing in the The Football League or the Premier League, the top four divisions of English football

name

Etymology: Ellipsis.

  1. Ellipsis of League of Nations.

    “The League was hampered by the U.S.'s refusal to join and its member states' unwillingness to impose sanctions on foreign countries.”

noun

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.

  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.”

  2. A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.

verb

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”).

  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.”