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
Recent Examples on the Web
In only the 28th major league game to end on a triple-play.
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Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024
Those can include regional fencing bouts in downtown Richmond, state softball tourneys in Chesterfield, major league bass fishing on the James or the A-10 Women's Basketball Championship, happening in March in Henrico.
—Karri Peifer, Axios, 23 Sep. 2024
To get to 50-50, that’s not a Dodgers thing, that’s an unprecedented major league baseball milestone.
—Jack Magruder, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
Shohei Ohtani looked up at a visiting crowd that turned out to cheer him and the Los Angeles Dodgers – and ended up getting to witness one of the greatest individual performances, and seasons, in major league history.
—Alanis Thames, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2024
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Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024
Those can include regional fencing bouts in downtown Richmond, state softball tourneys in Chesterfield, major league bass fishing on the James or the A-10 Women's Basketball Championship, happening in March in Henrico.
—Karri Peifer, Axios, 23 Sep. 2024
To get to 50-50, that’s not a Dodgers thing, that’s an unprecedented major league baseball milestone.
—Jack Magruder, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
Shohei Ohtani looked up at a visiting crowd that turned out to cheer him and the Los Angeles Dodgers – and ended up getting to witness one of the greatest individual performances, and seasons, in major league history.
—Alanis Thames, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2024
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“Major league.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/major%20league. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
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