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