Meaning

4 senses
  1. A siege.

    We must break the leaguer of the city.

  2. The camp of a besieging army; a camp in general.

  3. (in compounds, usually)A person in a league.

    I'm not a major-leaguer; I just play baseball.

  4. A measure of liquid.

Origin

From Dutch leger (“army”), itself derived from Proto-Germanic *legrą. Doublet of lair. Re

From Dutch leger (“army”), itself derived from Proto-Germanic *legrą. Doublet of lair.

Related to lager.

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Forms

plural: leaguers
Singularleaguer
Pluralleaguers

regular

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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