hockey league
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2.3
- noun
- /ˈhɑːki liːɡ/
:
liga de hockey
- The city launched a new hockey league for adults to promote fitness and community engagement.
- minor hockey league
- hockey league coaches
- hockey league players
Examples
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Denver just started a new pee-wee hockey league.
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I found a junior hockey league right here in San Francisco.
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He's the best player on the ice, probably the best player this little Thursday night hockey league will ever see.
Fiction book (2001) -
In 2002, Anthony joined an adult beginners' hockey league.
Academic text (2007) -
I'm the third-leading scorer in my hockey league.
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I joined a local hockey league to improve my skills and make new friends.
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My son plays in a junior hockey league that has matches every Saturday.
Synonyms
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3.2
A group of sports teams in the same league that play each other
How Professional
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is fully compositional: 'hockey' names the sport and 'league' denotes an organized competition, so 'hockey league' straightforwardly refers to an organized competition of hockey teams. This noun+noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Hockey league shows the simple picture of many hockey teams joined together to play each other on a regular schedule. So it means 'an organized group of teams that compete by the same rules'.