league
Sentences
Meaning
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- A group or association of cooperating members.
- An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
- (informal) 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.
Synonyms
league together
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/liːɡ/
Etymology
In summary
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”).
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