league

1. An association of states, organizations, or individuals for common action; an alliance.
2. Sports. An association of teams or clubs that compete chiefly among themselves. Also called loop.
3. A class or level of competition: The ski jump was out of his league.

To come together in or as if in a league.

To bring together in or as if in a league.

[Alteration (influenced by Italian lega) of Middle English liege, from Old French ligue, from Medieval Latin liga and from Old Italian lega, liga (from legare, to bind), both from Latin ligāre, to bind.]

1. 1. A unit of distance equal to 3.0 statute miles (4.8 kilometers).
   2. Any of various other units of about the same length.
2. A square league.

[Middle English lege, from Old French liue, leguee, from Latin leuga, a measure of distance, of Gaulish origin.]

noun

1. An association, especially of nations for a common cause: alliance, Anschluss, bloc, cartel, coalition, confederacy, confederation, federation, organization, union. See connect, group, politics.
2. A group of people united in a relationship and having some interest, activity, or purpose in common: association, club, confederation, congress, federation, fellowship, fraternity, guild, order, organization, society, sorority, union. See group.
3. A group of athletic teams that play each other: association, circuit, conference, loop. See group.
4. A division of persons or things by quality, rank, or grade: bracket, class, grade, order, rank¹, tier. See group, value/worthlessness/evaluation.

verb

1. To be formally associated, as by treaty: align, ally, confederate, federate. See connect, politics.
2. To assemble or join in a group: band², combine, gang up, unite. See collect/distribute.

Definition: associate
Antonyms: disassociate

length On land, usually 3 (statute) miles; in a maritime context three nautical miles.

A more or less informal association of states for a particular purpose, such as OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries). OPEC is a particularly strong league in comparison with, for example, the British Commonwealth which is more a cultural than a political league.

To convert from leagues to:

miles (approx.), multiply by 3.

Contents 1 Measurement 2 Countries 3 Groups of people 4 French Ligues (translated "Leagues") 5 Sports 6 Fiction, music, and entertainment 7 Other uses 8 See also

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The term League may refer to:

Measurement

• League (unit), an obsolete unit of length of an hour's walk: usually equal to three miles.
• Roman league, one of the Ancient Roman units of measurement, approximately 1.5 miles

Countries

• League of Nations
• Leagues of Inner Mongolia
• Holy League (1538)
• Peloponnesian League
• Catholic League, multiple meanings
• Arab League
• Lombard League
• Delian League

Groups of people

• The LEAGUE (nonprofit), a nonprofit, school and web-based program for service learning.
• League of Women Voters
• League of the Public Weal, a French alliance of feudal nobles organized in 1465
• League of Spiritual Discovery, a Baltimore-based arts and politics group
• League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina, a regional autonomist political party in Serbia
• Catholic League (French), created by Henry I, Duke of Guise in 1576 and bent upon extirpating Protestantism in France
• League Against Cruel Sports, a UK animal welfare campaign
• Urban League, a civil rights organization based in New York City

French Ligues (translated "Leagues")

These are factions of street politics, not political parties running for office.

• Far right leagues in France, which include the
  • Ligue des Patriotes, which is French for "League of Patriots"
  • Antisemitic League of France

Sports

• Sports league
• League system
• Rugby League

Fiction, music, and entertainment

• The League also listed as TheLeagueTv, a popular internet series about two hitmen. The series won BusinessWeek's Best of 2008 award for comedy.
• League of Nobles in the Dune prequel series written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
• Justice League of America, a popular American superhero team and comic book published by DC Comics
• The Red-Headed League, 1892 story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• A League of Their Own, 1992 film which tells a fictionalized account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
• The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, 1919 novel, sequel to the 1903 play/novel The Scarlet Pimpernel
• The League of Gentlemen (film), a 1959 movie directed by Basil Dearden and starring Jack Hawkins
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne, published in 1870.
• 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea, a 2007 film starring Lorenzo Lamas
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, 1999 graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film) 2003 film adaptation of the novel
• La Lega, an Italian song
• Solarian League, a fictional star nation in David Weber's Honorverse
• Terran League, a fictional confederation of planets populated by those descended mainly from old Earth Asians, in David Weber's 1992 book Path of the Fury.

Other uses

• League Collegiate Wear, a college apparel company

See also

• Alliance
• Confederation

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Dansk (Danish)
1.
n. - forbund, liga
v. intr. - slutte, indgå i et forbund
v. tr. - slutte, indgå i et forbund

idioms:

• be in league with    stå i ledtog med, have rottet sig sammen med
• League of Nations    Folkeforbundet
• out of one's league    ikke i samme klasse

2.
n. - mil

Nederlands (Dutch)
liga, (ver)bond, competitie (sport), klasse, variërende lengtemaat, (zich) verenigen in (ver)bond

Français (French)
1.
n. - (gén, Pol) ligue, collaboration, (GB, Sport) championnat (de football), ligue, (fig) niveau
v. intr. - s'unir à une ligue, combiner, allier
v. tr. - s'unir à une ligue, combiner, allier

idioms:

• in league    (être) allié avec
• League of Nations    Société des Nations
• out of one's league    ne pas (être) au niveau de

2.
n. - (Mes) lieue (arch)

Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - Liga, Bündnis, Bund
v. - zu einem Bund zusammenschließen, sich verbünden

idioms:

• in league    mit jmdm. zusammen etwas aushecken
• League of Nations    Völkerbund
• out of one's league    außerhalb jmdn. Reichweite, außerhalb jmds. Reichweite

2.
n. - (Längenmaß) ungefähr drei Meilen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - λεύγα, ένωση, συνασπισμός, λεγεώνα, (αθλοπ.) ομοσπονδία

idioms:

• be in league with    ενεργώ σε συμπαιγνία/σύμπραξη με, είμαι κολεγιά με
• League of Nations    η Κοινωνία των Εθνών
• out of one's league    σε λάθος κλάση

Italiano (Italian)
lega

idioms:

• be in league with    essere in combutta con
• League of Nations    Società delle Nazioni
• out of one's league    non all'altezza di

Português (Portuguese)
n. - liga (f), confederação (f)

idioms:

• be in league with    estar de comum acordo com
• League of Nations    Liga (f) das Nações
• out of one's league    muito caro

Русский (Russian)
лига, союз, категория, образовать союз, входить в союз

idioms:

• be in league with    быть в союзе с кем-л.
• League of Nations    Лига Наций
• out of one's league    не принадлежать к какому-л. обществу

Español (Spanish)
1.
n. - asociación, liga
v. intr. - ligarse, unirse, aliarse, confederarse
v. tr. - ligar, unir, confederar

idioms:

• in league    estar de manga con uno, estar asociado con, estar conchabado con, estar aliado o confabulado con, planear un delito
• League of Nations    Sociedad de Naciones
• out of one's league    no pertenecer a la misma clase, ser demasiado difícil o complicado para uno

2.
n. - legua

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - förbund, sportserie, mil

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
1. 同盟, 联盟, 联合会, 社团, 盟约, 俱乐部, 结盟, 联合, 使结盟, 使联合

idioms:

• be in league with    和...联合, 与...勾结
• League of Nations    国际联盟
• out of one's league    处于不适宜的环境, 与某人不属同一类型

2. 里格, 为长度单位

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
1.
n. - 同盟, 聯盟, 聯合會, 社團, 盟約, 俱樂部
v. intr. - 結盟, 聯合
v. tr. - 使結盟, 使聯合

idioms:

• be in league with    和...聯合, 與...勾結
• League of Nations    國際聯盟
• out of one's league    處於不適宜的環境, 與某人不屬同一類型

2.
n. - 里格, 為長度單位

한국어 (Korean)
1.
n. - 연맹, 동맹, 협회, 부류
v. intr. - 동맹하다, 단결하다
v. tr. - ~을 연합하게 하다, 단결시키다

idioms:

• be in league with    동맹하여

2.
n. - 거리의 단위(약 3마일) , 면적의 단위

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 連盟, 競技連盟, リーグ
v. - 団結する, 同盟を結ぶ

idioms:

• be in league with    同盟して
• League of Nations    国際連盟
• league table    連盟参加団体成績順一覧表
• out of one's league    同じ範疇外で

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) الفرسخ, عصبه, تحالف غير رسمي, طبقه, فئه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮ליגה, ברית, חבר‬
v. intr. - ‮הצטרף, התאגד בליגה‬
v. tr. - ‮הצטרף, התאגד בליגה‬
n. - ‮מידת-מרחק בעלת ערכים רבים, 8.4 ק"מ בקירוב‬

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