Legion

Quick meaning: Legion is an adjective meaning Numerous; vast; very great in number.

Meaning

Numerous; vast; very great in number.

More Meanings

1. (often Legion or the Legion) A national organization or association of former servicemen, such as the American Legion.
2. A large number of people; a multitude.
3. (often plural) A great number.
4. (military, Ancient Rome) The major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.
5. (military) A large military or semi-military unit trained for combat; any military force; an army, regiment; an armed, organized and assembled militia.
6. (military) 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.
7. (dated, taxonomy) 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.

Example Sentences

dissatisfied customers and their legion complaints

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

Russia’s labor and capital resources are woefully inadequate to overcome the state’s needs and vulnerabilities, which are legion.

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.

Word Forms

• legions
• legioning
• legioned

Synonyms for legion

Depending on context, synonyms include multitudinous, numerous, host, mass, multitude, sea.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include horde, host, manipular, battalion, corps, brigade.

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