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BIG LEAGUE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does big league mean?
• BIG LEAGUE (noun)
The noun BIG LEAGUE has 1 sense:
1. the most important league in any sport (especially baseball)
Familiarity information: BIG LEAGUE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The most important league in any sport (especially baseball)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
big league; major league; majors
Hypernyms ("big league" is a kind of...):
conference; league (an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members)
Meronyms (members of "big league"):
major-league club; major-league team (a team that plays in a major league)
Domain category:
ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)
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