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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

스포츠 리그

Pronunciation / Transliteration: seupocheu ligeu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Sports league/spɔːrts liːɡ/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #2500 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"지역 스포츠 리그는 매주 경기를 개최합니다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An organization of sports teams or individual athletes that compete against each other in a structured format.

    "The National Football League is one of the most popular sports leagues in the United States."
  2. 2

    A group of sports teams that compete in a series of games or matches over a season.

    "The teams in the local basketball sports league meet every Saturday for their matches."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'sport', derived from the Old French 'desport' meaning leisure, amusement, or game, and 'league', derived from the Late Latin 'liga' meaning a bind, tie, or alliance. Together, they evolved to describe an association of sporting teams organized for competitive play.

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