Word.ws English Dictionary

big league

big league noun: a major league.

Noun

big league (plural big leagues)

  1. A major league.

Adjective

big league (comparative more big league, superlative most big league)

  1. Major league (pertaining to the highest level of professional sports).
    • He made a real big league play.
  2. Major league (significant, important).

Adverb

big league (not comparable)

  1. (slang) To a significant degree; on a large scale.
    • Think of it. Iran is taking over Iraq, and they’re taking it over big league.2015 June 16, Donald Trump, “Transcript: Donald Trump announces his presidential candidacy”, in CBS News

Forms of big league

Noun
pluralbig leagues
Adjective
comparativemore big league
superlativemost big league

Questions about big league

What does big league mean?
Big league means a major league.
What part of speech is big league?
Big league can be a noun, an adjective or an adverb.
What is the plural of big league?
The plural of big league is big leagues.

Words near big league in the dictionary

  1. big labor
  2. big labour
  3. Big Lagoon
  4. Big Lake
  5. Big Lakes County
  6. big league
  7. big leagues
  8. big letter
  9. big letters
  10. big lick
  11. big licks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: big league (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-au-big league.ogg.

Cite this entry: “big league.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/big_league. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.