Definizione monolingua

legion

legion (plural legions)

1. (historical) The major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.
2. A large military or semimilitary unit trained for combat; any military force; an army, regiment; an armed, organized and assembled militia.
3. (often Legion or the Legion) A national organization or association of former servicemen, such as the American Legion, founded in 1919.
4. A large number of people; a multitude.
5. (often plural) A great number.

   Where one sin has entered, legions will force their way through the same breach. — John Rogers (1679-1729) Google Books

6. (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.

legion (not comparable)

1. Numerous; vast; very great in number; multitudinous.

   Russias labor and capital resources are woefully inadequate to overcome the states needs and vulnerabilities, which are legion.

Definizione dizionario legion

legione

	esercito
	Grande forza militare, che viene utilizzata specialmente per le operazioni di terra.
	A large, military force concerned mainly with ground operations.

legion

schiera

Altri significati:

A great number of.

(often plural) A great number.

An association of ex-servicemen.

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

Numerous; vast; very great in number; multitudinous.

A large number of people; a multitude.

(often Legion or the Legion) A national organization or association of former servicemen, such as the American Legion, founded in 1919.

(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.

A large military or semimilitary unit trained for combat; any military force; an army, regiment; an armed, organized and assembled militia.