league

/liːɡ/
nounverbadjective

A group or association of cooperating members.

NWL Collins ENABLE

Noun 4 meanings

  1. A group or association of cooperating members.

    “the League of Nations”

  2. An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.

    “My favorite sports organizations are the National Football League and the American League in baseball.”

  3. A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.

    “Forget about dating him; he's out of your league.”

  4. A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: 盟).

Verb 1 meaning

  1. To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.

Adjective 1 meaning

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

Definitions: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA) via Kaikki/Wiktextract

Where it comes from

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”).

LEAGUE at a glance

LEAGUE has 6 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (L 1 + E 1 + A 1 + G 2 + U 1 + E 1) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #738 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.

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