Meaning

2 senses
  1. An association of sports teams which plays at the highest skill level of its sport, especially Major League Baseball.

    the most important league in any sport (especially baseball)

  2. (attributive, usually plural)The highest level of competition in a field of endeavor.

    You can't be so casual. You're in the major leagues now.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. The manager has put him back in the major league.

  2. Tom's team kicked some major-league ass in the tournament.

  3. Skura entered the major league by dating Yanni, the son of the richest man in town.

  4. The American League is one of the two major baseball leagues in the United States and Canada.

  5. The Los Angeles Dodgers won their first Major League Baseball World Series in more than three decades.

Forms

plural: major leagues
Singularmajor league
Pluralmajor leagues

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
all senses:big leaguebig timemajors
association:superleagueelite league
Close in meaning
  • the most important league in any sport (especially baseball):big leaguemajors

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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