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What (who) is légion - definition
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Legions; Legion (comics); Legion (book); The legion; Legion (disambiguation); The Legion; Legion (film); Legion (military unit); Legion (novel)
Legion
·noun A great number; a multitude.
II. Legion ·noun A group of orders inferior to a class.
III. Legion ·noun A military force; an army; military bands.
IV. Legion ·noun A body of foot soldiers and cavalry consisting of different numbers at different periods, - from about four thousand to about six thousand men, - the cavalry being about one tenth.
legion
¦ noun
1. a division of 3,000-6,000 men in the ancient Roman army.
2. (the Legion) the Foreign Legion.
3. a national association of former servicemen and servicewomen, such as the Royal British Legion.
4. (a legion/legions of) a vast number of people or things.
¦ adjective great in number: her fans are legion.
Derivatives
legioned adjective
Origin
ME: via OFr. from L. legio(n-), from legere 'choose, levy'.
legion
n.
1.
Army, host, military force, body of troops.
2.
Multitude, host, army, great number.
Examples of use of légion
1. In 1''' I became a Chevalier de la Légion d‘honneur – an honour bestowed by the French on all surviving veterans of the great war.
2. As well as being Compagnon de la Libération, Guingouin was appointed to the Légion dhonneur and was awarded the Kings Medal for Courage by the United Kingdom.
3. He refused a military decoration but was eventually awarded the civilian légion d‘honneur in 1'''. "Some of my comrades weren‘t even given a wooden cross," he told Le Monde newspaper in 2005.
4. Scroll down for more ... Make–over: The usually scruffy Sir Bob dons tails – and medals – for the Vienna Philharmonic Ball On his coat, Geldof pinned the neck medal and breast badge of his honorary knighthood on his lapel, and also displayed his Sudanese Order of the Two Niles, the Légion d‘honneur and a Chevalier dans l‘Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
5. It is the change from being a civilian to becoming a legionnaire that some find difficult." It was a month since I had walked into the recruitment office of the Légion Etrang';re in the heart of the Citadelle in Lille, northern France.