league
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Is league a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of league?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (sports) An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.Examples: "My favorite sports organizations are the National Football League and the American League in baseball."; "He loved watching cricket leagues all around the world."countableuncountable
2. (informal, rugby, uncountable) Ellipsis of rugby league.Examples: "Are you going to watch the league tonight?"abbreviationalt-ofellipsisinformaluncountable
3. (chiefly in the negative) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.Examples: "Forget about dating him; he's out of your league."; "We're not even in the same league."countableuncountable
4. (military) An alliance or coalition.countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (ambitransitive) To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.Examples: "Out of my sight, thou Serpent, that name best Befits thee with him leagu'd."; "I believe that all the Bohemians and the great folks in Paris are so leagued together, that they are afraid of one another, and the people receive all the buffets of their disagreeings."ambitransitive
adj (English)
1. (British, soccer) Playing in the The Football League or the Premier League, the top four divisions of English footballBritishnot-comparable
noun (English)
1. (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).Examples: "Thenne kynge Mark and sir Dynadan rode forth a four leges englysshe tyl that they came to a brydge where houed a knyght on horsbak armed and redy to Iuste. "Then King Mark and Sir Dinadan rode forth a four leagues English, till that they came to a bridge where hoved a knight on horseback, armed and ready to joust.""; "Seven leagues above the mouth of the river we meet with two other passes, as large as the middle one by which we entered."; "To this time the Dutch had kept two garrisons in the North of Formosa, one of which was at Fort Kelang, taken from the Spaniards ; the other was at a place called Tamsui, about ten leagues to the westward of Kelang."
Definition source: Wiktionary