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[ UK /lˈiːd‍ʒən/ ]
[ US /ˈɫidʒən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. amounting to a large indefinite number
    numerous times
    the family was numerous
    Palomar's fans are legion
NOUN
  1. a vast multitude
  2. a large military unit
    the French Foreign Legion
  3. association of ex-servicemen
    the American Legion
  4. archaic terms for army

How To Use legion In A Sentence

  • He is the leader of a hilarious village of "unsubdued and irksome" Gauls still holding out against Caesar's legions in 50 B.C.
  • They asked image specialists for their ideas on how to freshen the legion's image.
  • The legionaries outside were yelling for the whole gang to be 'roasted out of the cave'. The Times Literary Supplement
  • There were legions of zombie idlers in the malls, the dead and gutted malls with high vacancy rates that wouldn't be resolved anytime soon.
  • Books and articles on the tradition of the English country house are legion.
  • A few months later, the guy who owned and operated the company upped and vanished to avoid a legion of creditors, and has not been seen since.
  • It turned out that the pork op-ed was something of a prelude to another, larger attack on the local/sustainable food movement: his recently published book, Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly, in which he warns the reader of legions of rabid locavores who would build up irresponsible local food systems and disserve global ecology through their uber-local diets. Leslie Hatfield: Miles from Nowhere: Why Does James McWilliams Hate Local Food?
  • Beer followed pizza and we looked round the Roman amphitheatre which had been built by Roman legionnaires 1,800 years before.
  • To his admirers, and they are legion, the glabrous Ailes is something else entirely — a valiant freedom-fighter standing up to the perfidious liberal media elite. Meet the fantastic Mr Fox
  • The web sites devoted to Brigitte are of course legion.
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