league vs separation

league

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

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

  • An alliance or coalition. 

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

separation

noun
  • The act or condition of two or more people being separated from one another. 

  • Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely. 

  • An agreement legalizing such an arrangement. 

  • An object that separates two spaces. 

  • The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated. 

  • The place at which a division occurs. 

  • An interval, gap or space that separates things or people. 

  • The act or condition of a married couple living in separate homes while remaining legally married. 

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