League of Nations

English

Proper noun

the League of Nations

1. An international organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the First World War. Its goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation, diplomacy and improving global quality of life. The predecessor of the United Nations.

Translations

international organization

• Afrikaans: Volkebond
• Albanian: Lidhja e Kombeve f
• Arabic: عُصْبَةْ اَلْأُمَم f (ʕuṣbat al-ʔumam)
• Armenian: Ազգերի լիգա (Azgeri liga)
• Azerbaijani: Millətlər Liqası
• Basque: Nazioen Liga
• Belarusian: Лі́га На́цый f (Líha Nácyj)
• Bulgarian: О́бщество на наро́дите n (Óbštestvo na naródite)
• Catalan: Societat de Nacions f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 國際聯盟 / 国际联盟 (zh) (Guójì liánméng)

• Czech: Společnost národů f
• Danish: Folkeforbund n
• Dutch: Volkenbond (nl) m
• Esperanto: Ligo de Nacioj f
• Estonian: Rahvasteliit
• Faroese: Fólkasamgongan f
• Finnish: Kansainliitto
• French: Société des Nations (fr) f
• Georgian: ერთა ლიგა (erta liga)
• German: Völkerbund (de) m
• Greek: Κοινωνία των Εθνών (el) f (Koinonía ton Ethnón)
• Hebrew: חבר הלאומים
• Hindi: राष्ट्र संघ (rāṣṭra saṅgh)
• Hungarian: Népszövetség (hu)
• Icelandic: Þjóðabandalagið n
• Indonesian: Liga Bangsa-Bangsa
• Irish: Conradh na Náisiún m
• Italian: Società delle Nazioni f
• Japanese: 国際連盟 (ja) (こくさいれんめい, Kokusai renmei)
• Kazakh: Ұлттар Лигасы (Ūlttar Ligasy)
• Korean: 국제연맹 (Gukjeyeonmaeng)
• Latin: Societas Civitatum
• Latvian: Tautu Savienība
• Lithuanian: Tautų Sąjunga (lt)
• Macedonian: Лига на народите f (Liga na narodite)
• Malay: Liga Bangsa
• Malayalam: സർവ്വരാജ്യസഖ്യം (saṟvvarājyasakhyaṁ)
• Marathi: लीग ऑफ नेशन्स (līg ŏph neśansa)
• Mongolian: Үндэстнүүдийн Лиг (Ündestnüüdiin Lig)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Folkeforbundet

  Nynorsk: Folkeforbundet

• Persian: جامعه ملل (jâme'e-ye melal)
• Polish: Liga Narodów f
• Portuguese: Sociedade das Nações f, Liga das Nações f
• Romanian: Liga Națiunilor f
• Russian: Ли́га На́ций f (Líga Nácij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Друштво народа n, Лига Народа f

  Roman: Društvo naroda n, Liga naroda f

• Sinhalese: ජාතීන්ගේ සංගමය (jātīngē saṁgamaya)
• Slovak: Spoločnosť národov f
• Slovene: Društvo narodov n
• Spanish: Sociedad de Naciones (es) f
• Sranan Tongo: Folkubontu
• Swahili: Shirikisho la Mataifa
• Swedish: Nationernas förbund
• Tatar: Милләтләр Лигасы (Millätlär Ligası)
• Telugu: నానాజాతి సమితి (nānājāti samiti)
• Thai: สันนิบาตชาติ (săn-ní-bàat châat)
• Turkish: Milletler Cemiyeti
• Ukrainian: Лі́га На́цій f (Líha Nácij)
• Urdu: جمعیت اقوام (jamiyyat-e aqwâm)
• Vietnamese: Hội Quốc Liên
• Welsh: Cynghrair y Cenhedloedd
• West Frisian: Folkebûn
• Yiddish: פֿעלקער־ליגע f (felker-lige)

Further reading

• “League of Nations”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “League of Nations”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “League of Nations, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.