A League

1. A group or association of cooperating members.
2. (sports) An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
3. (informal, rugby) Ellipsis of rugby league.
4. (chiefly in the negative) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.
5. A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: 盟).
6. (military) An alliance or coalition.
7. (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
8. A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.