minor league

1. 1.

   a league of teams that do not belong to a major league (especially baseball)

   Synonymsminorsbush league

   Broaderleague

   baseball

Questions about minor league

What does minor league mean?

minor league means "a league of teams that do not belong to a major league (especially baseball)".

What is another word for minor league?

Close synonyms include minors, bush league. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is minor league a common word?

minor league is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.