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MINOR LEAGUE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A league of teams that do not belong to a major league (especially baseball)
Synonyms:
bush league; minor league; minors
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
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)
