Definition of LEGION

legion

Meanings

Plural: legions

Noun

  • archaic terms for army
  • association of ex-servicemen
    • "the American Legion"
  • a large military unit
    • "the French Foreign Legion"
  • a vast multitude
  • The major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.
  • 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 national organization or association of former servicemen, such as the American Legion.
  • A large number of people; a multitude.
  • A great number.
  • 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.

Adjective Satellite

  • amounting to a large indefinite number
    • "Palomar's fans are legion"

Adj

  • Numerous; vast; very great in number.

Verb

  • To form into legions.

Origin / Etymology

Attested (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.
Generalized sense of “a large number” is due to an allusive phrase in Mark 5:9, "My name is Legion, for we are many".

Scrabble Score: 7

legion is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
legion is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
legion is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

legion is a valid Words With Friends word