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Word: legion (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Numerous; vast; very great in number; multitudinous.

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Noun:

  • A large military or semimilitary unit trained for combat; any military force; an army, regiment; an armed, organized and assembled militia.
  • A large number of people; a multitude.
  • 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.
  • historical The major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.
  • (often '''Legion''' or '''the Legion''') A national organization or American Legion, founded in 1919.
  • (often plural) A great number.

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