League

Noun

 * 1) A group or association of cooperating members.
 * The Red-headed League in Sherlock Holmes stories.
 * 1) 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.
 * 1)  The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
 * 2) * M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), p. 47
 * Seven leagues above the mouth of the river we meet with two other passes, as large as the middle one by which we entered.''

Derived terms

 * bush league
 * in a league of one's own
 * in league (with)
 * major league
 * minor league
 * out of one's league
 * seven-league boots

Verb

 * 1) To form an association.

Adjectives for League
united; endless; weary; hostile; moribund; nuptial; immeasurable; remarkable; unconscious; stormy.

Verbs for League
ally with—; appeal to—; associate with—; band into—; crack—; criticize—; enter—; excite—; join—; renounce—; resuscitate—; —assists; —confers on; —defends; —safeguards; —sanctions; —shelters; —threat¬ens; —unites.

Adverbs for League
inseparably; nuptially; protectively; firmly; perpetually.

Thesaurus
Anschluss, Bund, NATO, Rochdale cooperative, SEATO, accouple, accumulate, act in concert, act together, addition, affiliate, affiliate with, affiliation, agglomeration, agglutinate, aggregation, agreement, alignment, alliance, ally, amalgamate, amalgamation, amass, anschluss, articulate, assemblage, assemble, assimilation, associate, association, axis, band, band together, be in cahoots, be in league, blend, blending, bloc, body, bond, bracket, bridge, bridge over, brotherhood, bunch, bunch up, cabal, cahoots, capitulation, cartel, category, cement, cement a union, centralization, centralize, chain, circuit, clap together, clot, club, club together, cluster, coact, coadunation, coalesce, coalescence, coalition, collaborate, colleagueship, collect, college, collegialism, collegiality, collude, combination, combine, combo, come into, come together, common market, composition, comprise, comradeship, concatenate, concert, concord, concordat, concur, confederacy, confederate, confederation, conference, confraternity, congeries, conglobulate, conglomeration, congregate, conjoin, conjugate, conjugation, conjunction, connect, consociate, consolidate, consolidation, conspiracy, conspire, consumer cooperative, convention, converge, cooperate, cooperative, cooperative society, copartnership, copartnery, copulate, corps, council, couple, cover, credit union, creep in, crowd, customs union, date, division, do business with, economic community, ecumenism, embodiment, embrace, encompass, encompassment, enlist, enosis, enroll, entente, entente cordiale, enter, federalization, federalize, federate, federation, fellowship, flock together, flow together, forgather, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization, free trade area, freemasonry, fuse, fusion, gang, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, get heads together, get into, get together, glue, go in partners, go in partnership, go into, go partners, grade, group, grouping, guild, hang together, harmonize, herd together, hive, hold together, hook up, hook up with, hookup, horde, huddle, include, inclusion, incorporation, integration, international agreement, join, join forces, join fortunes with, join in, join together, join up, join up with, join with, junction, junta, keep together, knot, lay together, league together, league with, link, loop, lump together, machine, make common cause, marriage, marry, marshal, mass, meet, meld, melding, merge, merger, mill, mob, mobilize, muster, mutual-defense treaty, nonaggression pact, order, organize, package, package deal, paction, pair, pair off, partner, partnership, piece together, pigeonhole, play ball, political machine, pull together, put heads together, put together, rally, rally around, reciprocate, rendezvous, ring, seethe, sign on, sign up, sneak in, society, sodality, solder, solidification, sorority, span, splice, stand together, stand up with, stick together, stream, surge, swarm, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, take in, take out membership, take up membership, tape, team up, team up with, team with, throng, throw in together, throw in with, tie, tie in, tie in with, tie up, tie up with, tie-in, tie-up, tier, treaty, unification, unify, union, unionize, unite, unite efforts, unite with, wed, wedding, weld, wheel, work together, yoke

Etymology
ligg: < ligue: <  lega:, from the verb legare: <  ligo:.

Noun

 * Catalan: lliga
 * Polish: liga, przymierze
 * Romanian: alianță, coaliție, ligă


 * Serbo-Croatian: liga
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 * Catalan: lliga
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 * Romanian: ligă
 * Serbo-Croatian: liga
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 * Ukrainian: Ліга (liha)


 * Bulgarian: левга
 * Esperanto: leŭgo
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 * Romanian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: liga
 * Turkish: fersah

Verb

 * Polish: sprzymierzać się, sprzymierzyć się
 * Romanian: a se alia, a se coaliza


 * Serbo-Croatian: koalirati
 * Swahili: