Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: league
IPA transcription: [l'iɡ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: league, conference
    Meaning: an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members
  • Synonyms: league
    Meaning: an association of states or organizations or individuals for common action
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: league
    Meaning: unite to form a league
Usage examples
  • "Less than a league."
  • "What's a league?" asked the boy.
  • He also made a league with Antiochus the son.
  • The crater of Snaefell resembled an inverted cone, the opening of which might be half a league in diameter.
  • Their leadership seldom dries up a factory town or a mining region, with all the help the Anti-Saloon League can give.
  • People who looked upon America as the one great nation of the earth almost sneered when they mentioned our attitude toward the League of Nations.
  • I did not know whether to laugh and compare it to the National Baseball League's trafficking in "big names," or to hunt for some sinister danger sign in it.
  • To him it seemed to be certain that Alice and Mr. Grey were in league;--and if they were in league, what must he think of Alice, and of her engagement with himself!
  • The Union League Club, the Lotos, the Typographical Society, the Associated Press, German and colored clubs, and temperance organizations passed resolutions of sorrow.
  • If your lordship would be so good as to give me ever so small a bit of heaven, were it no more than half a league, I'd rather have it than the best island in the world."