Legionary

Quick meaning: Legionary is a noun meaning (military, Ancient Rome) A soldier belonging to a legion; a professional soldier of the ancient Roman army.

Meaning

(military, Ancient Rome) A soldier belonging to a legion; a professional soldier of the ancient Roman army.

More Meanings

1. A person who is neither a citizen nor colonial/imperial subject of the state whose military they join.
2. Relating to, or consisting of, a legion or legions.
3. Containing a great number.
4. A member of a legion, such as the American Legion, or of any organization containing the term legion in its title (e.g. the French Foreign Legion).

Example Sentences

a legionary force

Suddenly, [...] he saw all this as romantic — the last legionary, his aloneness, the lost cause really lost — and instinctively he pulled in his paunch, stroked down his hair to cover the naked part of the scalp, and wiped the sweat off his cheeks.

1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica (aka, Vulgar Errours), Google Books Unto whom (what is deplorable in men and Christians) too many applying themselves, betwixt jest and earnest, betray the cause of truth, and insensibly make up the legionary body of error.

Word Forms

• legionaries

Synonyms for legionary

Depending on context, synonyms include legionnaire.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include legionnaire, legion, superlegion, legionry, triarius, scholarian.

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