major league
noun
1
: a league of highest classification in U.S. professional baseball
broadly
: a league of major importance in any of various sports
2
major leaguer
noun
Examples of major league in a Sentence
when you've landed a tenure-track position at that university, you're playing in the major leagues
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In his more than two decades of writing about the world of sports, he’s chronicled everything from high school rodeo to a major league baseball no-hitter to the Super Bowl to the Finals.
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Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 6 Mar. 2025
The New York Mets made their first round of cuts from their major league spring training roster Tuesday.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
Seattle's sports scene offers a professional football team, an NHL franchise, a major league baseball team (which ended its 21-year playoff drought recently), and the four-time WNBA champions, the Seattle Storm.
—Melissa Santos, Axios, 28 Feb. 2025
As for your second question, there are some major leagues here in North America that have 32 teams.
—Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2025
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Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 6 Mar. 2025
The New York Mets made their first round of cuts from their major league spring training roster Tuesday.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
Seattle's sports scene offers a professional football team, an NHL franchise, a major league baseball team (which ended its 21-year playoff drought recently), and the four-time WNBA champions, the Seattle Storm.
—Melissa Santos, Axios, 28 Feb. 2025
As for your second question, there are some major leagues here in North America that have 32 teams.
—Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2025
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“Major league.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/major%20league. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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