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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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connection
English
Alternative forms
- connexion (UK, dated), connex. (abbreviation)
Etymology
From Middle English conneccioun, connexioun, conneccyon, conneccion, from Latin connexionem (nominative connexio (“a conclusion, binding together”)), from connect?, an alternative spelling of c?nect? (“I bind together”), from compound of co- (“together”) and nect? (“I bind”)
In American English mid-18c., spelling shifted from connexion to connection (equivalent to connect +? -ion), thus making connexion British dated and connection in international use.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??n?k??n/
- Rhymes: -?k??n
Noun
connection (countable and uncountable, plural connections)
- (uncountable) The act of connecting.
- The point at which two or more things are connected.
- the connection between overeating and obesity
- My headache has no connection with me going out last night.
- A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
- As we were the only people in the room to laugh at the joke, I felt a connection between us.
- An established communications or transportation link.
- computers linked by a network connection
- I was talking to him, but there was lightning and we lost the connection.
- (transport) A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service
- The bus was late so he missed his connection at Penn Station and had to wait six hours for the next train.
- A kinship relationship between people.
- An individual who is related to oneself, through either family or business.
- I have some connections in Lancashire.
- (mathematics) A set of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is included in any of the sets, and the union of any group of sets that are elements where the intersections of those sets is non-empty.
- coherence; lack of disjointedness
- (religion) The description for a Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences.
- sexual intercourse
Translations
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