League
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League can mean:
- League (unit), an obsolete unit of length of an hour's walk: usually equal to three miles.
However, the Roman league was half this length: 1.5 Roman miles (7500 Roman feet or 2.22 km) - League (Inner Mongolia), an administrative division in Inner Mongolia
League is also a collective entity, for example:
A group of individuals
- League of Women Voters
- A League of Their Own
- The Red-Headed League, a story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The League of Gentlemen, a 1959 movie directed by Basil Dearden and starring Jack Hawkins, et al
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill (or the film based upon same).
- The League, a Paris-based rock band
- The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
- The Justice League of America, a popular American superhero team and comic book published by DC Comics
- League of Spiritual Discovery, a Baltimore-based arts and politics group
- League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina, a regional autonomist political party in Serbia
A sports competition in which each team plays all the other teams (first used by The Football League in 1888)
- Sports league
- League system
- Rugby league football, the sport, is sometimes abbreviated "league"
A group of countries with a common purpose
Fictional leagues
- League of Nobles in the Dune prequel series written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
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