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legion🔊

Numerous; vast; very great in number.

📑 Synonyms: multitudinous numerous

(military, Ancient Rome) The major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.

(military) A combined arms major military unit featuring cavalry, infantry, and artillery.

(military) 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.

A large number of people; a multitude.

📑 Synonyms: host mass multitude sea throng

A great number.

(dated, taxonomy) 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.

To form into legions.