LEGION

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.

2.
n.

A military force; an army; military bands.

3.
n.

A great number; a multitude. Where one sin has entered,legions will force their way through the same breach. Rogers.

4.
n.

A group of orders inferior to a class. Legion of honor, an order instituted by the French government in 1802, when Bonaparte was First Consul, as a reward for merit, both civil and military.


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