Meaning of league in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• A group or association of cooperating members.

  Example: the League of Nations

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

  Example: My favorite sports organizations are the National Football League and the American League in baseball.

• (often in the negative) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.

  Example: Forget about dating him; he's out of your league.

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

verb

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

noun

• A version of rugby football, played between two teams of thirteen.

noun

• (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.