Definitions for leagues

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leagues league

Spelling: [leeg]

IPA: /lig/

Leagues is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 144 anagrams from letters in leagues (aeeglsu).

Definitions for leagues

noun

1. a covenant or compact made between persons, parties, states, etc., for the promotion or maintenance of common interests or for mutual assistance or service.
2. the aggregation of persons, parties, states, etc., associated in such a covenant or compact; confederacy.
3. an association of individuals having a common goal.
4. a group of athletic teams organized to promote mutual interests and to compete chiefly among themselves:
5. Sports. major league. minor league.
6. group; class; category:
7. a unit of distance, varying at different periods and in different countries, in English-speaking countries usually estimated roughly at 3 miles (4.8 kilometers).
8. a square league, as a unit of land measure.
9. a covenant or compact made between persons, parties, states, etc., for the promotion or maintenance of common interests or for mutual assistance or service.
10. the aggregation of persons, parties, states, etc., associated in such a covenant or compact; confederacy.
11. an association of individuals having a common goal.
12. a group of athletic teams organized to promote mutual interests and to compete chiefly among themselves:
13. Sports. major league. minor league.
14. group; class; category:
15. a unit of distance, varying at different periods and in different countries, in English-speaking countries usually estimated roughly at 3 miles (4.8 kilometers).
16. a square league, as a unit of land measure.

Idioms

1. in league, working together, often secretly or for a harmful purpose; united.
2. in league, working together, often secretly or for a harmful purpose; united.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to unite in a league; combine.
2. to unite in a league; combine.

Origin of leagues

1425-75; earlier leage Italian lega, noun derivative of legare Latin ligāre to bind; replacing late Middle English ligg Middle French ligue Italian liga, variant of lega

Examples for leagues

There be seven of them in all, lying off the town of Hampton on the mainland, about a league.

Had she decoyed him to the rendezvous in the dark but to betray him to the bandits with whom she was in league?

The Daily Beast spoke to a jubilant league on Tuesday about the behind-the-scenes battle to get The Interview to movie theaters.

According to league, Alamo Drafthouse was actively working with Sony on Monday on the possibility of screening The Interview.

And as far as security at the screenings goes, league says his theaters have taken the necessary precautions.

But as an American creating a new brand here, and living the daily life of the souk, he seems to be in a league of his own.

As soon would I league myself with the Odomantians of Thrace!

She was confessedly in league with a gang of adventurers upon a quest for treasure.

“I wish they may not be in league with them,” said Master Headley.

I spoke to the league of Women Voters, a pretty liberal group... I still went and spoke to them.

But the resort areas have not been free of the leagues for the Protection of the Revolution.

He retired to a place named Boya, a dozen leagues from the capital.

It was but two leagues now to the beloved city in which he had been young.

The way Brazil dispatches soccer players to leagues around the world, the U.S. loans out monetary experts to other countries.

The legislation eliminated competition between the two leagues for talent, and established a 24-team entity, and the Super Bowl.

Immediately they were a thousand leagues from the Africa they knew.

The thefts left three of the leagues in such sorry financial shape that it seemed the kids might not be able to play this spring.

He could smell Indians in hiding and wood smoke three leagues away.

The tone was formal, and put Payne ten thousand leagues away from her.

The pressures upon players are enormous, but the leagues themselves are to a certain degree complicit.