league meaning
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[liːɡ] [-iːɡ] WLeague
- League may refer to:
- League (unit), obsolete unit of length of an hour's walk
- Rugby league, full contact football code
- National Rugby League, premier Australasian league
- Super League, premier European league
- Catholic League, one of several religious confederations or sports teams
- Sports league
- The League, sitcom on FX about Fantasy Football
- The League (web series), also listed as TheLeagueTv, internet series about two hitmen
- The LEAGUE, program for service learning
- Leagues of China, administrative division equivalent to a prefecture
- NounPLleagues
- A group or association of cooperating members.
- the League of Nations
- 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.
- (informal) Rugby league.
- Are you going to watch the league tonight?
- (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.
- A group or association of cooperating members.
- VerbSGleaguesPRleaguingPT, PPleagued
- To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.
- To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- City will now make the Premier League an even bigger priority, while regrouping and planning again for what they hope will be another tilt at the Champions League next season.
- Chelsea kept their faint Premier League title hopes alive and damaged Manchester United's own ambitions as they came from behind to beat the leaders at Stamford Bridge.
- Another surprise is that Newcastle have the meanest defence in all four leagues and they did their utmost to preserve the tag at Molineux.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- That team has the best starting pitchers in the league.
- At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to the Premier League.
- Robin van Persie scored a sensational volley to mark Arsenal's 125th birthday with a victory over Everton that puts them fourth in the Premier League.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of league in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
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- Verbs
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "league" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb.