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Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : leeg
Phonetic Transcription : lig



Definition of league

Origin :
  • "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).
  • noun association, federation
  • noun group of a certain ability
  • verb associate
Example sentences :
  • As soon would I league myself with the Odomantians of Thrace!
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • “I wish they may not be in league with them,” said Master Headley.
  • Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • There be seven of them in all, lying off the town of Hampton on the mainland, about a league.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume V (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • She was confessedly in league with a gang of adventurers upon a quest for treasure.
  • Extract from : « The Inn at the Red Oak » by Latta Griswold
  • Had she decoyed him to the rendezvous in the dark but to betray him to the bandits with whom she was in league?
  • Extract from : « The Inn at the Red Oak » by Latta Griswold
  • It seemed as though the Fates and Sue were in league to keep Joe in my life.
  • Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
  • This island is very small, not above half a league in diameter.
  • Extract from : « The History of Louisiana » by Le Page Du Pratz
  • They adversary, as thou mayest have conjectured, is in league with the powers of darkness.
  • Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin
  • This war was participated in by no less than seventy-seven cities on the part of the League.
  • Extract from : « The Railroad Question » by William Larrabee
  • A new organisation, called "The League of Wayfarers," has been formed.
  • Extract from : « Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 8, 1914 » by Various

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