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# league

«league» in Mova's school dictionary: **A group of sports teams or clubs that play matches…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a league, leagues)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A group of sports teams or clubs that play matches against each other to see who is best. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/league/#m1)

2) A level of quality: «He is not in the same league». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/league/#m2)

3) A group of people or countries who join together for a shared aim. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/league/#m3)

4) An old measure of distance, about three miles (about 5 kilometres). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/league/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In sport and PE: «football league», «the top of the league», «league table» (a list that ranks teams by points — reading it uses addition and comparing numbers). In stories: «Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea» uses the old distance meaning. Phrases: «in league with» (working secretly with someone).

### examples

- Our team is top of the league. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/league/#x1)
- She plays in a girls' football league. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/league/#x2)
- We get three points for a win in our league. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/league/#x3)
- Look at the league table to see who is winning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/league/#x4)
- That chess player is out of my league. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/league/#x5)
- The pirates were in league with the guards. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/league/#x6)
- In the old story, they walked seven leagues in one day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/league/#x7)

### note

Spelling trap: «league» ends in «-gue», said «leeg». Countable: a league, leagues. In a league table, teams with equal points are ranked by goal difference (goals for minus goals against).

### In the corpora

- [The Haudenosaunee nations joined in a league of peace to settle quarrels by talking.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/5/)
- [In a league a win is worth 3 points and a draw 1.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/41-football-positions-rules-and-scoring/12/)
- [Union has 15 players a side and league 13.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/13/)
- [Most professional footballers retire in their 30s, and many outside the top leagues earn ordinary wages and need a second career.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes/9/)
- [VAR was used at the 2018 World Cup and came to the Premier League a year later, in 2019.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/65-var-rows-referees-fans-and-rivalries/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «league» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/league/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.