Word a Day
league
What does league mean?
league (noun): an organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use league in a sentence?
- He loved watching cricket leagues all around the world. (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0)
How do you pronounce league?
/liɡ/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does league come from?
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”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “league” mean?
an organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship
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a man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse
Not quite: that's what husband means.
somebody who possesses great bravery and carries out extraordinary or noble deeds
Not quite: that's what hero means.
an action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change
Not quite: that's what influence means.
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