Noun: league
| Singular | league |
| Plural | leagues |
Sample Sentences
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the League of Nations
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And let there be / 'Twixt us and them no league, nor amity. [1668, John Denham, The Passion of Dido for Aeneas:]
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My favorite sports organizations are the National Football League and the American League in baseball.
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He loved watching cricket leagues all around the world.
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Are you going to watch the league tonight?
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Forget about dating him; he's out of your league.
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We're not even in the same league.
Nouns inflected like league
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English liege, ligg, lige (“a pact between governments, an agreement, alliance”), from Middle French ligue, from Italian lega, from the verb legare, from Latin ligō (“to tie”). See: Middle English Nouns '
liege', Italian Nouns '
lega', Latin Nouns '
ligō'.
Verbs referencing "league"
Polish Nouns
liga.