Usually means: Units of measurement for distance.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word leagues:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. leagues: Merriam-Webster
  2. leagues: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. leagues: Collins English Dictionary
  4. leagues: Vocabulary.com
  5. League's, Leagues, Leagues, league's, leagues, leagues: Wordnik
  6. leagues: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Leagues, leagues: Wiktionary
  8. leagues: Dictionary.com
  9. leagues: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Leagues (band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. leagues: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. leagues: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. leagues: Encyclopedia

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  1. leagues: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (League)

noun:  A group or association of cooperating members.
noun:  (sports) An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
noun:  (chiefly in the negative) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.
noun:  A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: 盟).
noun:  (military) An alliance or coalition.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.
noun:  (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
noun:  A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (informal, rugby, uncountable) Ellipsis of rugby league. [A version of rugby football, played between two teams of thirteen.]
noun:  Ellipsis of League of Nations.. [An international organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the First World War. Its goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation, diplomacy and improving global quality of life. The predecessor of the United Nations.]
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