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league

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1 a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest

a league of concerned parishioners who are seeking a greater voice in church affairs

Synonyms of league

association, board, brotherhood, chamber, club, college, congress, consortium, council, fellowship, fraternity, guild (also gild), institute, institution, order, organization, society, sodality

Words Related to league

collective, commune, community, cooperative

alliance, bloc, camp, coalition, partnership

body, cadre, group

circle, clan, clique, coterie, junta, junto, klatch (also klatsch), lot, set

crew, outfit, party, squad, team

branch, chapter, local

faithful, fold, membership

sisterhood, sorority

cabal, camarilla, camorra, confederacy, conspiracy

band, gang, ring

cartel, combine, syndicate

2 an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection

created to avert future wars, the League of Nations was a forerunner of the United Nations

Synonyms of league

alliance, axis, bloc, block, coalition, combination, combine, confederacy, confederation, federation, union

Words Related to league

cabal, conspiracy, junto

cartel, syndicate, trust

faction, front, fusion, side, wing

association, group, organization

affiliation, cooperative, partnership

circuit, conference

3 one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic

that falls into a different league of fiction—the popular novel

Synonyms of league

bracket, category, class, classification, division, family, genus, grade, group, kind, order, rank(s), rubric, set, species, tier, type

Words Related to league

description, feather, ilk, kidney, like, manner, nature, sort

branch, section, speciality, specialty, subclass, subdivision, subgroup, subspecies, variety

breed, race

generation

heading, label, title

league

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of league

1 to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members

the whole block leagued together to keep a liquor store from opening in their neighborhood

Synonyms of league

ally, associate, band (together), club, coalesce, cohere, confederate, conjoin, cooperate, federate, unite

Words Related to league

cabal, collaborate, gang up, hang together, team (up)

incorporate, organize, unionize

affiliate

amalgamate, combine, conglomerate, consolidate, converge, group, join, merge

knot, link, tie, wed

Phrases Synonymous with league

close ranks, pull together

Near Antonyms of league

detach, disengage, dissolve, disunite, divorce, part, segregate, separate, sever, split, sunder

alienate, estrange, fall out

Antonyms of league

break up, disband

2 to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end

some unlikely political bedfellows leagued together to get the bill passed

Synonyms of league

band (together), collaborate, concert, concur, conjoin, conspire, cooperate, join, team (up), unite

Words Related to league

connive

affiliate, ally, associate, combine, confederate, hang together, interface

Phrases Synonymous with league

make common cause, play ball, pull together

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