league

/liːɡ/ · noun

Meaning

A group or association of cooperating members.
An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
(often in the negative) 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).
To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.
A version of rugby football, played between two teams of thirteen.
(measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.

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