league

Noun

league

1. A group or organization

   Ex. The Red-headed league in Sherlock Holmes

2. An organization of sports teams that habitually play against each other for a championship

   Ex. the National Football League, the American (baseball) League

3. (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour. Commonly taken to be 3 English miles.

   M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisisana (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;

6 letters in word "league": A E E G L U.

No anagrams for league found in this word list.

Words found within league:

ae ag age agee aglee aglu ague al ale alee ea eagle eale eau ee eel egal el euge gae gal gale gau geal gee gel glee glue gu gue gul gula gule la lag lea lee leg leu lug luge ug ule

• Definitions:
• an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members an association of states or organizations or individuals for common action unite to form a league an obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles)
• A league is a unit of length, used to express distance, long common in Europe and Latin America, although no longer an official unit in any nation. The league expresses the distance a person, or a horse, can walk in 1 hour of time (usually about 3 miles or 5 kilometres).
• Unit of area used in the southwest US, equal to 25 labors, or 4428 acres (Texas), or 4439 acres (California). Also, a unit of length-- approximately three miles.
• Three nautical miles
• A distance measurement of three nautical miles
• Measurement of distance, twelve furlongs, or about 1½ miles.
• Measure of distance three miles in length. One-twentieth of a degree of latitude.
• a group of teams playing a sport who take part in competitions between each other. lead: having more goals than the other team at a given point during the game leg: in some knockout competitions, the teams play two games, one at home and one away: the first and second legs. ...
• a version of rugby played normally with 13 players under different laws than Rugby Union. The two codes deviated over professionalism and are usually contentious towards each other.
• A measure of distance equal to approximately three miles; varies in different countries
• Organized competition on a weekly basis for team play.
• Unit of distance equal to 3 statute miles or 4.8 kilometers. Previously a unit of distance equal to 3 nautical miles. ***
• A league of land is a stand-alone survey which is traditionally 4428 acres, more or less. Leagues are defined as stand-alone surveys by Tobin. Most of the Public School Lands are Leagues.
• A collection of Matches between Teams assigned to particular competitive Levels, Divisions, and rules by a single Organization.

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