intelligentsia vs league

intelligentsia

noun
  • The intellectual elite of a society, particularly in Marxist doctrine. 

league

noun
  • An alliance or coalition. 

  • A group or association of cooperating members. 

  • A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league. 

  • An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship. 

  • The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers). 

  • A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level. 

  • A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: 盟). 

verb
  • To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support. 

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