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leaguer

1 9.9

A soldier who surrounds a place to capture it

noun
/ˈliːɡər/

Archaic

: asediador

The general ordered the leaguers to set up camp around the fortress to prepare for the siege.
a major leaguer
a minor leaguer
a big leaguer

Examples

The leaguers positioned themselves strategically to surround the city and cut off all escape routes.
As night fell, the leaguers lit fires to signal their intentions to the defenders inside the besieged castle.
And it's not just that Texas is so far from places like these in every way possible; Texas is too grand to have just a few Ivy Leaguers.

Fiction book (1997)

Synonyms

besieger

vsleaguer

1 9.3

A person or group that surrounds a place to capture it by cutting off supplies

focuses on surrounding or camping near to capture rather than active attacks

Antonyms

defender

252 2.8

A person who protects someone or something from harm

Compounds

major leaguer

7 3.4

A baseball player who plays for a top professional team

minor leaguer

5 4.8

A baseball player who plays for a professional team below the top level

Ivy Leaguer

3 6.0

A person who went to an Ivy League university in the United States

big leaguer

1 5.6

A baseball player on a top professional team

little leaguer

1 3.0

A child between eight and twelve who plays on an organized youth baseball team

big leaguer

Informal

6.1

A professional who works at the top level in their field

bush leaguer

9.7

A baseball player on a minor league team

Texas leaguer

Jargon

9.9

A short, weak fly ball that drops between infielders and outfielders and gives the batter a hit

Surface Forms

leaguer singular

leaguers plural

Etymology

Leaguer has an older origin in the word leger, meaning a 'camp' or 'place to lie down', so a leaguer can mean a person or force that camps around a place during a siege to capture it.