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league

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of league

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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