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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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squad
English
Etymology 1
From French escouade, from Italian squadra (“square”) (whence also French escadre).
Alternative forms
- escouade (archaic)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?skw?d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?skw?d/
- Rhymes: -?d
Noun
squad (plural squads)
- A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members.
- A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members.
- 1912, in The New England magazine, volume 47:
- A squad of soldiers ordered them to disperse but instead of doing so they commenced throwing ice and rocks.
- 1912, in The New England magazine, volume 47:
- (cricket, soccer, rugby) A group of potential players from whom a starting team and substitutes are chosen.
- (informal) A collective noun for a group of squid.
- 1970, TV Guide:
- At one point, the 400-ton Calypso was brought to a standstill by a squad of squid which clogged the engines and caused a power failure. Other, highlights included an attack by predatory blue sharks, […]
- 2002, Let's Go Inc., Let's Go 2003: Britain & Ireland, Let's Go Publications:
- The Sea Life Centre retains a squad of squid and such.
- 2012, S. Louis King, Gnome Home Papers, AuthorHouse (?ISBN), page 546:
- There's several new symbols next to the doorway symbol. Beso pushed all six of them without waiting to see what they brought; like a herd of charging rhinos or rampaging squad of squid. Next best thing though.
- 2017, Kristen Joy Wilks, Athens Ambuscade, Pelican Ventures Book Group (?ISBN)
- I pulled in as deep a breath as my gag allowed and began relaxing my body. I used a little trick I'd learned in college. I imagined that a friendly squad of squid were massaging every muscle on the bottoms of my feet; the tension began to drain.
- 1970, TV Guide:
- A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members.
- (slang) One's friend group, taken collectively; one's peeps.
Derived terms
- firing squad
- flying squad
- God squad
Related terms
- squadron
Translations
See also
- Appendix:English collective nouns
Verb
squad (third-person singular simple present squads, present participle squadding, simple past and past participle squadded)
- (intransitive) To act as part of, or on behalf of, a squad.
- We squad on the fifth of the month.
Etymology 2
Uncertain. Compare squick (“disgust”), squalid (“dirty”) with similar initial sounds.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?skwæd/
Noun
squad
- (Britain, dialect) Sloppy mud. [from the mid-17th c.]
- 1875 March 13, Leicester Chronicle, quoted in the EDD:
- The lass ran all among the muck and squad.
- 1895, Alfred Tennyson, The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson: Poet-laureate, page 791:
- An' she did n't not solidly mean I wur / gawin' that waäy to the bad,
- Fur the gell was as howry a trollope as / iver traäpes'd i' the squad.
- 1875 March 13, Leicester Chronicle, quoted in the EDD:
Further reading
- Robert Eden George Cole, A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire (1886), page 140
Anagrams
- quads
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es?kwad/, [es?kwað?]
Noun
squad m (plural squads or squad)
- squad
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