legion
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.
» Tom doesn't know the difference between a phalanx and a legion.
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значень: 7(Ancient Rome)The major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.
Legion
легио́нlegión
легіо́нlehión
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.
a large military unit
A national organization or association of former servicemen, such as the American Legion.
association of ex-servicemen
A large number of people; a multitude.
Their complicated affairs are managed by a legion of accountants.
a vast multitude
(часто, множина)A great number.
(застаріле)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.
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речень: 16Tom doesn't know the difference between a phalanx and a legion.
A legion of anthropomorphic foxes is clashing with an army of orcs.
Stories like that are legion.
deSolche Geschichten gibt es wie Sand am Meer. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
I am a thousand, I am ten thousand, I am legions. I am present in everything around me.
He enlisted in the Foreign Legion.
deEr trat in die Fremdenlegion ein. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
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Attested (in Middle English, as legioun) around 1200, from Old French legion, from Latin lAttested (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.
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