league

Universal Words noun 1 a group of people, or nations who have combined for a particular purpose: the League of Nations * a meeting of the Women's League for Peace seealsoIVYLEAGUE 2 a group of sports teams who all play each other to earn points and find which team is best: major league baseball * United were league champions last season. * If we look at the the league table we can see Bolton are bottom with 21 points. 3 (informal) a level of quality, ability, etc: As a painter, he is in a league of his own (= much better than others). * They're in a different league from us. * When it comes to cooking, I'm not in her league (= she is much better than me). * A house like that is out of our league (= too expensive for us). 4 (old use) a unit for measuring distance, equal to about 3 miles or 4000 metres IDIOMS in league (with sb) making secret plans with sb