LEAGUE OF NATIONS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does League of Nations mean? 

• LEAGUE OF NATIONS (noun)
  The noun LEAGUE OF NATIONS has 1 sense:

1. an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations; although suggested by Woodrow Wilson, the United States never joined and it remained powerless; it was dissolved in 1946 after the United Nations was formed

  Familiarity information: LEAGUE OF NATIONS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEAGUE OF NATIONS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations; although suggested by Woodrow Wilson, the United States never joined and it remained powerless; it was dissolved in 1946 after the United Nations was formed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("League of Nations" is a kind of...):

global organization; international organisation; international organization; world organisation; world organization (an international alliance involving many different countries)