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MINOR LEAGUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does minor league mean? 

MINOR LEAGUE (noun)
  The noun MINOR LEAGUE has 1 sense:

1. a league of teams that do not belong to a major league (especially baseball)play

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


 Dictionary entry details 


MINOR LEAGUE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A league of teams that do not belong to a major league (especially baseball)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

bush league; minor league; minors

Hypernyms ("minor league" is a kind of...):

conference; league (an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members)

Meronyms (members of "minor league"):

minor-league club; minor-league team (a team that plays in a minor league)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)


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