League of Nations

League of Nations

English

Proper noun

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 (ʿuṣbat al-ʾumam) 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 (saṟvvarājyasakhyaṃ) 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 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 at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “League of Nations”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “League of Nations, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.