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league
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /li??/
- Rhymes: -i??
Etymology 1
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 lig? (“I tie”).
Noun
league (plural leagues)
- A group or association of cooperating members.
- 1668, John Denham, The Passion of Dido for Aeneas
- And let there be / 'Twixt us and them no league, nor amity.
- 1668, John Denham, The Passion of Dido for Aeneas
- (sports) An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
- (informal, rugby) Ellipsis of rugby league
- (often in the negative) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.
- A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: ?).
Derived terms
Related terms
- ally
- alliance
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ??? (r?gu)
- ? Korean: ?? (rigeu)
Translations
Verb
league (third-person singular simple present leagues, present participle leaguing, simple past and past participle leagued)
- To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.
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Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English lege (“league”), from Late Latin leuca, leuga (“the Gaulish mile”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *lewg? (compare Middle Breton leau, Welsh lew, Breton lev / leo (“league”)).
Noun
league (plural leagues)
- (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
- 1751-1753, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana (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.
- 1751-1753, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), p. 47
- A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.
Translations
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “league”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- Middle English Dictionary, lege
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- = 5.55600 kilometers
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coalescence
English
Alternative forms
- coalescency
Noun
coalescence (countable and uncountable, plural coalescences)
- The act of coalescing.
- (phonology) The merging of two segments into one.
Derived terms
Translations
French
Noun
coalescence f (plural coalescences)
- coalescence
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