legion

1. (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

2. 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.

3. 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

4. A national organization or association of former servicemen, such as the American Legion.

   association of ex-servicemen

5. A large number of people; a multitude.

   Their complicated affairs are managed by a legion of accountants.

   a vast multitude

6. (often, plural)A great number.

7. (dated)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.

1. Tom doesn't know the difference between a phalanx and a legion.

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2. A legion of anthropomorphic foxes is clashing with an army of orcs.

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3. Stories like that are legion.

   deSolche Geschichten gibt es wie Sand am Meer.

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4. I am a thousand, I am ten thousand, I am legions. I am present in everything around me.

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5. He enlisted in the Foreign Legion.

   deEr trat in die Fremdenlegion ein.

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