Legion
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legion¹
- /ˈliː.d͡ʒən/ Australia, New Zealand, UK
- /ˈli.d͡ʒən/ Canada, US, Scotland
Rhymes with -iːdʒən
Where it comes from
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".
adjective
- Numerous; vast; very great in number. Russia’s labor and capital resources are woefully inadequate to overcome the state’s needs and vulnerabilities, which are legion.
noun legions
- The major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.
- 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.
- 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.
- A national organization or association of former servicemen, such as the American Legion.
- A large number of people; a multitude. Their complicated affairs are managed by a legion of accountants.
- A great number. where one Sin has entered, Legions will force their Way through the fame Breach.
- 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 legions · legioning · legioned
- To form into legions.
Legion²
proper noun the Legion
- Ellipsis of American Legion.American Legion
