Dictionary
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
major league en · ADJ
Meanings
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Of or pertaining to a major sports league; belonging to the professional level of a sport, such as US baseball.
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(broadly) Analogous in importance to a major league sports team.
Calatrava is a major league architect.
That rock band is really major league.
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(figuratively) Serious, high-level; significant
[…]I'm experiencing a major-league anxiety attack, searching my pockets for Valium, Xanax, a leftover Halcion, anything, and all I find are three faded Nuprin in a Gucci pill-box, so I pop all three into my mouth and swallow them down with a Diet Pepsi and I couldn’t tell you where it came from if my life depended on it.
1991, Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 148:Bill accidentally faxed sensitive documents to our competitors, and such a major league mess-up could only be dealt with by firing Bill.
The company made a major league effort to get the contract.
Forms
major league en · NOUN
Meanings
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An association of sports teams which plays at the highest skill level of its sport, especially Major League Baseball.
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(attributive, plural-normally) The highest level of competition in a field of endeavor.
You can't be so casual. You're in the major leagues now.
Forms
Coordinates
minor league (both senses) · minors (both senses) · bush league (both senses)
Deriveds
major-leaguer
Synonyms
big time (all senses) · big league (all senses) · elite league (association) · superleague (association) · majors (all senses)