leaguer1
/ˈliːɡə
/noun [with adjective or noun modifier] chiefly North American
A member of a particular league, especially a sports player: an assembly of minor leaguers in spring training...
- While the transition from nameless minor leaguer to major league leader seemed to happen overnight, he knows it is at least partially a product of his many years of toil.
- Like most baseball fans, major leaguers watch the Little League World Series.
- Minor leaguers are subjected to drug tests, but 40-man roster members are not.
Rhymes
leaguer2
/ˈliːɡə/noun & verb
Variant of laager.
Origin
Late 16th century: from Dutch leger 'camp'. Compare with laager, lager, and lair1.
- broadly
- broad-minded
- broad-mindedly
- broad-mindedness
- broad money
- Broadmoor
- broadness
- broad pendant
- broad pennant
- broad-ranging
- broad reach
- Broads
- broadscale
- broadsheet
- broadsheet newspaper
- broad-shouldered
- broadside
- broadside on
- broad-spectrum
- broadsword
- broadtail
- broadway
- Broadwell ring
- broast
- Brobdingnagian