leagues

1. A group or association of cooperating members.

   the League of Nations

2. An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.

   My favorite sports organizations are the National Football League and the American League in baseball.

3. (often in the negative) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.

   Forget about dating him; he's out of your league.

4. A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: 盟).

verb

To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.

1. (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
2. A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.

noun

A version of rugby football, played between two teams of thirteen.