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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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syndicate
English
Etymology
From French syndicat (“office of a syndic; board of syndics; trade union”), from syndic (“syndic; representative; chief magistrate of Geneva”) + -at (“suffix denoting an action or result of an action”), from Medieval Latin *syndicatus, from syndicus (“representative of a corporation or town; syndic”) (from Ancient Greek ???????? (súndikos, “advocate for a defendant”), from ??? (sún, “beside; with”) + ???? (dík?, “judgment; justice”)) + -?tus (“suffix forming adjectives from nouns indicating the possession of a thing or a quality”).
Compare Italian sindacato (“syndicate; trade union; audit, control, supervision”), Occitan sendegat, Portuguese sindicato (“trade union”), Spanish sindicado, sindicato (“office of a syndic; syndicate; trade union”).
Pronunciation
- Noun: (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?s?nd?k?t/
- Verb: (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?s?nd?ke?t/
- Hyphenation: syn?dic?ate
Noun
syndicate (plural syndicates)
- A group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business, or to promote a common interest; a self-coordinating group.
- (crime) A group of gangsters engaged in organized crime.
- (mass media) A group of media companies, or an agency, formed to acquire content such as articles, cartoons, etc., and to publish it in multiple outlets; a chain of newspapers or other media outlets managed by such an organization.
- (crime) A group of gangsters engaged in organized crime.
- The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a body or council of syndics.
Translations
Verb
syndicate (third-person singular simple present syndicates, present participle syndicating, simple past and past participle syndicated)
- (intransitive) To become a syndicate.
- (transitive) To put under the control of a group acting as a unit.
- (transitive, mass media) To release media content through a syndicate to be broadcast or published through multiple outlets.
Related terms
- syndicated (adjective)
- syndication
- syndicator
Translations
Further reading
- syndicate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- asyndetic, centidays, cystidean
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