Legion

//ˈliː.d͡ʒən// adj, name, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    amounting to a large indefinite number wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Ellipsis of American Legion. US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a vast multitude wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    archaic terms for army wordnet
  5. 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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  1. 6
    a large military unit wordnet
  2. 7
    A national organization or association of former servicemen, such as the American Legion.
  3. 8
    association of ex-servicemen wordnet
  4. 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."

  5. 10
    A great number. often, plural

    "where one Sin has entered, Legions will force their Way through the fame Breach."

  6. 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
Verb
  1. 1
    To form into legions. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

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".

Etymology 2

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".

Etymology 3

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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