Crossword clues for league
league
- Word with "little" or "major"
- Three miles or so
- Part of N.F.L
- NHL part
- Majors division
- Word with little or major
- Word with ''Little'' or ''major''
- UN forerunner, ... of Nations
- Top division in English soccer, premier ...
- Three miles
- The L in CFL
- The "L" of NFL
- The "L" of N.F.L
- Superhero team
- Sports association
- Sporting association
- Roughly three nautical miles
- Roughly three miles
- Pro sports association
- Part of NHL
- Ocean depth unit
- NFL part
- National or American
- National or American, in professional baseball
- N.F.C. plus A.F.C
- Major, Minor or Little
- Major or minor thing
- Major or minor follower
- Major or American
- Gang that hangs out in alleys
- Football code, rugby ...
- Doyle's "Red-Headed ___"
- Distance for Captain Nemo
- Conniving, with "in"
- Confederate group
- Athletic association
- Association of teams
- American or National
- Alliance — old measure of distance
- Alley cats?
- "A __ of Their Own"
- '80s band Human ___
- Allege beauty mostly misrepresented in sports ranking
- College group some distance beneath climber
- I leave guy improperly for American universities
- Three miles, roughly
- Part of N.F.L.
- Federation of clubs
- Collection of teams
- The "L" in N.L. or A.L.
- An association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members
- An association of states or organizations or individuals for common action
- An obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles)
- Pony ___, in baseball
- Minor or bush ___
- Doyle's "The Red-Headed ___"
- Unit of distance
- Informal alliance
- N.F.C. plus A.F.C.
- One of Verne's twenty thousand
- ___ of Nations
- About three miles
- About three nautical miles
- It may be major or minor
- American, for one
- Doyle's was red-headed
- Group in shelter nursing endless fever
- Group getting the French fever
- Measure of what certain sportsmen hope to win
- Competition distance once used
- Coalition: the French disease
- Old measure of distance
- French article put forward case: right to leave union
- French article unclear, dismissing initial alliance
- Former measure of distance
- Association of sports clubs
- Alliance - old measure of distance
- Association for a common purpose
- Distance definable, for me, as initially in four pieces
- The Parisian Complaint Unit
- Play group
- Jock flock
- Part of NFL
- Sports grouping
- Play group?
- Sports division
- Group of teams
- Nautical distance
- Maritime measure
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
League \League\ (l[=e]g), n. [F. ligue, LL. liga, fr. L. ligare to bind; cf. Sp. liga. Cf. Ally a confederate, Ligature.]
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An alliance or combination of two or more nations, parties, organizations, or persons, for the accomplishment of a purpose which requires a continued course of action, as for mutual defense, or for furtherance of commercial, religious, or political interests, etc.
And let there be 'Twixt us and them no league, nor amity.
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Specifically: (Sports) An association of sports teams that establishes rules of play, decides questions of membership in the league, and organizes matches between the member teams. In some cases a sports league is called a conference, as in the National Football Conference.
Note: A league may be offensive or defensive, or both; offensive, when the parties agree to unite in attacking a common enemy; defensive, when they agree to a mutual defense of each other against an enemy.
The Holy League, an alliance of Roman Catholics formed in 1576 by influence of the Duke of Guise for the exclusion of Protestants from the throne of France.
Solemn League and Covenant. See Covenant,2.
The land league, an association, organized in Dublin in 1879, to promote the interests of the Irish tenantry, its avowed objects being to secure fixity of tenure, fair rent, and free sale of the tenants' interest. It was declared illegal by Parliament, but vigorous prosecutions have failed to suppress it.
Syn: Alliance; confederacy; confederation; coalition; combination; compact; co["o]peration.
League \League\ (l[=e]g), n. [Cf. OE. legue, lieue, a measure of length, F. lieue, Pr. lega, legua, It. & LL. lega, Sp. legua, Pg. legoa, legua; all fr. LL. leuca, of Celtic origin: cf. Arm. leo, lev (perh. from French), Ir. leige (perh. from English); also Ir. & Gael. leac a flag, a broad, flat stone, W. llech, -- such stones having perh. served as a sort of milestone (cf. Cromlech).]
A measure of length or distance, varying in different countries from about
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4 to 4.6 English statute miles of 5,280 feet each, and used (as a land measure) chiefly on the continent of Europe, and in the Spanish parts of America. The marine league of England and the United States is equal to three marine, or geographical, miles of 6080 feet each.
Note: The English land league is equal to three English statute miles. The Spanish and French leagues vary in each country according to usage and the kind of measurement to which they are applied. The Dutch and German leagues contain about four geographical miles, or about 4.6 English statute miles.
2. A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league. [Obs.]
League \League\, v. t. To join in a league; to cause to combine for a joint purpose; to combine; to unite; as, common interests will league heterogeneous elements.
League \League\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Leagued; p. pr. & vb. n.
Leaguing.] [Cf. F. se liguer. See 2d League.]
To unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual
support; to confederate.
--South.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"alliance," mid-15c., ligg, from Middle French ligue "confederacy, league" (15c.), from Italian lega, from legare "to tie, to bind," from Latin ligare "to bind" (see ligament). Originally among nations, subsequently extended to political associations (1846) and sports associations (1879). League of Nations first attested 1917 (created 1919).
distance of about three miles, late 14c., ultimately from Late Latin leuga (source also of French lieue, Spanish legua, Italian lega), said by Roman writers to be from Gaulish. A vague measure (perhaps originally an hour's hike) never in official use in England, where it is recorded more often in poetic than in practical writing.
"to form a league," 1610s, from league (n.1). Related: Leagued; leaguing.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A group or association of cooperate members. 2 An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship. 3 (context informal English) rugby league. vb. To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support. Etymology 2
n. 1 (context measurement English) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers). 2 A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.
WordNet
v. unite to form a league
n. an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members [syn: conference]
an association of states or organizations or individuals for common action
an obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles)
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
A league is a unit of length (or, in various regions, area). It was long common in Europe and Latin America, but it is no longer an official unit in any nation. The word originally meant the distance a person could walk in an hour. Since the Middle Ages, many values have been specified in several countries.
League may refer to:
- League (unit), traditional unit of length 3 miles or an hour's walk
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Rugby league, full contact football code, often referred to as just "league"
- 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, American sitcom broadcast on FX and FXX 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
- League of Nations, precursor of the UN
- Malthusian League, 19th century birth control advocates
- Leagues (band), American rock band
Usage examples of "league".
Were I to accede to this I might as well pack up at once and go and live on a farm a hundred leagues from Paris.
Halting for refreshment and rest wherever suitable places could be found, and the Adelantado always with the vanguard, in four days they reached the vicinity of the fort, and came up within a quarter of a league of it, concealed by a grove of pine trees.
And setting their course towards it the Edain came at last over leagues of sea and saw afar the land that was prepared for them, Andor, the Land of Gift, shimmering in a golden haze.
May I introduce Shastrix of the Agnate League, and Gennax of the Mountain Coalition.
Prime, the first ever to be born on Altair, an exceptionally unique Prime, more talented, more powerful, more agoraphobic, more lonely, than any other Prime yet known in the Nine Star League.
I began by showing him that Leticia Nazareno owed us for an amount of taffeta twice the nautical distance to Santa Maria del Altar, that is, one hundred ninety leagues, and he said aha as if to himself, and I ended up by showing him that the total debt with the special discount for your excellency was equal to six times the grand prize in the lottery for ten years, and he said aha again and only then did he look at me directly without his glasses and I could see that his eyes were timid and indulgent, and only then did he tell me with a strange voice of harmony that our reasons were clear and just, to each his own, he said, have them send the bill to the government.
They could travel at the most ten miles in a day, and it was more than thirty leagues before they struck the Aldern River.
An Aragonese official, Santangel, found the money, the L1500 required for the expedition, and the traveller was overtaken by an alguazil a couple of leagues away, and recalled to Granada.
Junior League, an active Kappa alumna, something in the hospital auxiliary, and something else at the country club.
League of the Purple Gentian to whom Amy planned to offer her services.
Daniels, a professor of apiculture at Odessa Ag College, became aware of a mass-stinging incident at a little league baseball game in nearby Abejo, Texas.
Hills to the east and the Saniphir Hills to the west, the track running for seven leagues, opening out on a plain that faced the ancient tel of Sanimon, then wrapped around it to encompass the Sanith Odhan and, beyond that, the Geleen Plain, the Dojal Odhanand the city of Aren itself.
Even if we make it to Balahn, to Aren Way, it is still three leagues to the city itself.
Yet even worse was the knowledge that that pain would accompany his entire final journey down into eventual unconsciousness, and with itan added traumawere the images burned into him: almost forty hours of being driven on foot up Aren Way, watching each and every one of those ten thousand soldiers joined to the mass crucifixion in a chain of suffering stretching over three leagues, each link scores of men and women nailed to every tree, to every available space on those tall, broad trunks.
The hidden entrance to the Dark Stair was but five leagues away, and down below, in the deeps, it opened on the underground river, Eferni, which flowed to the Danding Pool in Arneis, on the other side of massive Mt.