legion
Numerous; vast; very great in numberNumerous; vast; very great in number.
» Tom doesn't know the difference between a phalanx and a legion.
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1 senses(not comparable)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
Legion
- amounting to a large indefinite number
Examples
16 sentencesTom 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
Translations
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Origin
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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