league

Meanings

Noun

• A group or association of cooperating members.
• An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
• 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.
• 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.

Verb

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

Origin

• From Middle English liege, ligg, lige, from Middle French ligue, from Italian lega, from the verb legare, from Latin ligō.
• From Middle English lege, from Late Latin leuca, leuga, from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *lewgā (compare Middle Breton leau, Welsh lew, Breton lev / leo).