major league
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.91 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An association of sports teams which plays at the highest skill level of its sport, especially Major League Baseball.
noun
The highest level of competition in a field of endeavor.
adj
Of or pertaining to a major sports league; belonging to the professional level of a sport, such as US baseball.
adj
Example Sentences
- "You can't be so casual. You're in the major leagues now."
- "That rock band is really major league."
- "Calatrava is a major league architect."
- "The company made a major league effort to get the contract."
- "Bill accidentally faxed sensitive documents to our competitors, and such a major league mess-up could only be dealt with by firing Bill."
- "[…]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."
Inflected Forms
major leagues (plural)
more major league (comparative)
most major league (superlative)
major-league (alternative)