Definition of "league" in English

noun

1. A group or association of cooperating members.

   • the League of Nations

2. (sports) 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.
   • He loved watching cricket leagues all around the world.

3. (informal, rugby, uncountable) Ellipsis of rugby league.

   • Are you going to watch the league tonight?

4. (chiefly in the negative) 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.
   • We're not even in the same league.

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

6. (military) An alliance or coalition.

verb

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

adjective

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

noun

1. (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).

   • Seven leagues above the mouth of the river we meet with two other passes, as large as the middle one by which we entered.

2. A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.