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legion

/ˈli.d͡ʒən/

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What does legion mean?

adjective

  1. Numerous; vast; very great in number.

noun

  1. The major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.
  2. A combined arms major military unit featuring cavalry, infantry, and artillery, including historical units such as the British Legion, and present-day units such as the Spanish Legion and the French Foreign Legion.
More meanings (7)

noun

  1. A large military or semi-military unit trained for combat; any military force; an army, regiment; an armed, organized and assembled militia.
  2. A national organization or association of former servicemen, such as the American Legion.
  3. A large number of people; a multitude.
  4. A great number.
  5. (dated) A group of orders inferior to a class; in scientific classification, a term occasionally used to express an assemblage of objects intermediate between an order and a class.

verb

  1. To form into legions.

proper noun

  1. Ellipsis of American Legion.
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If all the devils of hell be drawn in little, and Legion himself possessed him, yet I’ll speak to him.
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100
So Mr. Washington’s cult has gained unquestioning followers, his work has wonderfully prospered, his friends are legion, and his enemies are confounded.
W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du BoisThe Souls of Black FolkProject Gutenberg ebook #408
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It is a curious circumstance, but every successive Zeppelin disaster, and their number is legion, has been attributable to a new cause.
Frederick Arthur Ambrose TalbotAeroplanes and Dirigibles of WarProject Gutenberg ebook #793
Of the descent of the legion from above, he knew nothing, and the three days' strategy of Tarleton were wasted upon him.
William Gilmore SimmsThe Life of Francis MarionProject Gutenberg ebook #843
We saw the minister visiting a factory and pinning the Legion of Honour on to the breast of a worker blinded by yperite.
Victor LefebureThe Riddle of the Rhine: Chemical Strategy in Peace and WarProject Gutenberg ebook #1272