| league | |
| 1. n. A group or association of cooperating members. | |
| the League of Nations | |
| 2. n. 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. | |
| 3. n. (informal) rugby league | |
| Are you going to watch the league tonight? | |
| 4. n. A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia. | |
| 5. v. To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support. | |
| 6. n. (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers). | |
| 7. n. A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league. | |
