legion
adjEtymology
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".
Definitions
Numerous
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.
- dissatisfied customers and their legion complaints
- Shepard: Where are the rest of the Reapers? Are you the last of your kind? We are legion. The time of our return is coming. Our numbers will darken the sky of every world. You cannot escape your doom.
The major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry…
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…
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.
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A large military or semi-military unit trained for combat
A large military or semi-military unit trained for combat; any military force; an army, regiment; an armed, organized and assembled militia.
A national organization or association of former servicemen, such as the American Legion.
A large number of people
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.
A great number.
- where one Sin has entered, Legions will force their Way through the fame Breach.
- Afternoon TV mainstays like Leila Benitez and Bobby Ledesma of Darigold Jamboree gradually gave way to teenage loveteams Vi and Bot and Guy and Pip who had legions of fans watching their shows and movies and listening to their records.
- Legions of lawyers make use of codes and loopholes like the EB-5 program in the United States, whereby anyone who invests $500,000 to $1 million can gain a visa; […]
A group of orders inferior to a class
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.
To form into legions.
Ellipsis of American Legion.
The neighborhood
- neighborlegionary
- neighborlegionnaire
Derived
foreign legion, infralegion, legionella, legionry, sublegion, superlegion
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at legion. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at legion. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at legion
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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