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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishliege,ligg,lige(“a pact between governments, an agreement, alliance”), fromMiddle Frenchligue, fromItalianlega, from the verblegare, fromLatinligō(“I tie”).

Noun

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league (countable anduncountable,pluralleagues)

  1. Agroup orassociation ofcooperating members.
    theLeague of Nations
    • 1668,John Denham,The Passion of Dido for Aeneas:
      And let there be / 'Twixt us and them noleague, nor amity.
  2. (sports) An organization ofsportsteams which play against one another for achampionship.
    My favorite sports organizations are the National FootballLeague and the AmericanLeague in baseball.
  3. (informal, rugby, uncountable)Ellipsis ofrugby league.
    Are you going to watch theleague tonight?
  4. (chiefly in the negative) Aclass or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.
    Forget about dating him; he'sout of yourleague.
    We're not even in the sameleague.
  5. Aprefecture-leveladministrativeunit inInner Mongolia (Chinese:盟).
  6. (military) Analliance orcoalition.
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Translations
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a group or association of cooperating members
organization of sports teams

Verb

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league (third-person singular simple presentleagues,present participleleaguing,simple past and past participleleagued)

  1. (ambitransitive) To form anassociation; to unite in a league orconfederacy; to combine formutualsupport.
    • 1667,John Milton, “Book X”, inParadise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];[a]nd by Robert Boulter […];[a]nd Matthias Walker, […],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […],1873,→OCLC:
      Out of my sight, thou Serpent, that name best Befits thee with himleagu'd.
    • 1845,Bentley's Miscellany, volume18, page 7:
      I believe that all the Bohemians and the great folks in Paris are soleagued together, that they are afraid of one another, and the people receive all the buffets of their disagreeings.
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to form an association

Adjective

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league (notcomparable)

  1. (British, soccer) Playing in theThe Football League or thePremier League, the top fourdivisions ofEnglishfootball
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Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishlege(“league”), fromLate Latinleuca,leuga(“the Gaulish mile”), fromGaulish,[1] fromProto-Celtic*lougā (compareMiddle Bretonleau,lew,Bretonlev /leo(“league”)).[2]

Noun

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league (pluralleagues)

  1. (measurement) Thedistance that a person can walk in onehour, commonly taken to beapproximately three Englishmiles (about fivekilometers).
    • 1485,Thomas Malory,Le Morte Darthur, Book X,Chapter 10:
      Thenne kynge Mark and sir Dynadan rode forth a fourleges 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 fourleagues English, till that they came to a bridge where hoved a knight on horseback, armed and ready to joust."
    • 1751-1753,Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz,History of Louisiana (PG), p. 47
      Sevenleagues above the mouth of the river we meet with two other passes, as large as the middle one by which we entered.
    • 1813,James Burney,A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean‎[2], volume 3,London:Luke Hansard and Sons,page257:
      To this time the Dutch had kept two garrisons in the North ofFormosa, one of which was atFort Kelang, taken from the Spaniards ; the other was at a place calledTamsui, about tenleagues to the westward ofKelang.
    • 1855,Alfred Tennyson, “The Charge of the Light Brigade”, inMaud, and Other Poems, London:Edward Moxon, […],→OCLC, stanza 1,page151:
      Half aleague, half aleague, / Half aleague onward, / All in the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred.
  2. A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.
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distance

References

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  1. ^Blažek, Václav (2008) “Gaulish Language”, inStudia minora Facultatis philosophicae Universitatis Brunensis, number13, Sborníku prací filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity, page49
  2. ^Koch, John (2004)English–Proto-Celtic Word-list with attested comparanda‎[1], University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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