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Legion
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- 1 Numerous; vast; very great in number. not-comparable
"Russia’s labor and capital resources are woefully inadequate to overcome the state’s needs and vulnerabilities, which are legion."
- 1 amounting to a large indefinite number wordnet
- 1 Ellipsis of American Legion. US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 1 The major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops. Ancient-Rome
- 2 a vast multitude wordnet
- 3 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.
- 4 archaic terms for army wordnet
- 5 A large military or semi-military unit trained for combat; any military force; an army, regiment; an armed, organized and assembled militia.
"Efforts to unionize were routinely met with clubbings, shootings, jailings, blacklistings and executions, perpetrated not only by well-armed legions of company goons, but also by police officers, deputies, National Guardsmen and even regular soldiers."
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- 6 a large military unit wordnet
- 7 A national organization or association of former servicemen, such as the American Legion.
- 8 association of ex-servicemen wordnet
- 9 A large number of people; a multitude.
"With all due respect to Aaron, every era seems to have had its legion of wrongdoers and shortcutters who used whatever science was available to get an edge."
- 10 A great number. often, plural
"where one Sin has entered, Legions will force their Way through the fame Breach."
- 11 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. dated
- 1 To form into legions. transitive
Etymology
Attested (in Middle English, as legioun) around 1200, from Old French legion, from Latin legiō, legionem, from legō (“to gather, collect”); akin to legend, lecture. Doublet of León, which was borrowed from Spanish. Generalized sense of “a large number” is due to an allusive phrase in Mark 5:9, "My name is Legion, for we are many".
Attested (in Middle English, as legioun) around 1200, from Old French legion, from Latin legiō, legionem, from legō (“to gather, collect”); akin to legend, lecture. Doublet of León, which was borrowed from Spanish. Generalized sense of “a large number” is due to an allusive phrase in Mark 5:9, "My name is Legion, for we are many".
Attested (in Middle English, as legioun) around 1200, from Old French legion, from Latin legiō, legionem, from legō (“to gather, collect”); akin to legend, lecture. Doublet of León, which was borrowed from Spanish. Generalized sense of “a large number” is due to an allusive phrase in Mark 5:9, "My name is Legion, for we are many".
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