legion
a division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 soldiers.
a military or semimilitary unit.
the Legion.
any large group of armed men.
any great number of persons or things; multitude.
very great in number: The holy man's faithful followers were legion.
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How to use legion in a sentence
Because the companies that Reddit’s legion of traders decided to pump were ultimately not selected for anything other than price plasticity.
As legions of day traders drove up GameStop’s share price more than than 1,700% this month, institutional investors who had bet against it have stomached massive losses, scrambling to cover their positions by buying the stock back.
Why Robinhood is blocking the little guy from the GameStop showdown | Roya Wolverson | January 28, 2021 | QuartzHathiramani sees his startup as an onramp to the tech industry for legions of workers who have the skillsets to work in tech, but lack the network to see themselves in the business.
Want a job in tech? Flockjay pitches its sales training service as an on-ramp to tech careers | Jonathan Shieber | January 15, 2021 | TechCrunchAll have been criticized for inflating the cost of living in big cities, particularly on the West Coast, where legions of well-paid software developers helped drive up housing prices.
Amazon pledges $2 billion for affordable homes near U.S. cities | Verne Kopytoff | January 6, 2021 | FortuneInstances of PPP fraud are legion and continue to pile up, from the fake Florida ministry that allegedly received more than $8 million in government funds to the Texas man who allegedly poured nearly $1 million of PPP money into cryptocurrency.
Oprah, when she came, found a legion of her fans on its doorstep.
The Fiery Death of Sotto Sotto, Toronto’s Celebrity Hotspot | Shinan Govani | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe will see some surprising groups, maybe a legion of them, face the Six.
Gail Simone’s Bisexual Catman and the ‘Secret Six’ | Rich Goldstein | December 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFirst, in his opening remarks yesterday, the pontiff towed a much more conservative line than his legion of new fans might expect.
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl reportedly tried to join the legion before enlisting in the U.S. Army.
1,000 Americans Are Serving in the Israeli Army and They Aren’t Alone | Chris Allbritton | July 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThat will be a harder claim to make after today: its soccer team is a doughty legion.
He was, for this reason, at once elected lieutenant-colonel of the volunteer legion of the Pyrenees.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonThis weakened the defence of the land against the northern tribes, as the legion never returned.
The Towns of Roman Britain | James Oliver BevanShe constantly wore on her breast the cross of chevalier of the legion of Honor conferred on her husband by the Emperor.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois ChristopheWestern gamblers are legion—a reckless, money-plunging, romantic and venturesome yet an admittedly square-shooting clan.
He was also made chevalier of nearly all the orders in Italy, and member of the legion of Honour.
British Dictionary definitions for legion
/ (ˈliːdʒən) /
a military unit of the ancient Roman army made up of infantry with supporting cavalry, numbering some three to six thousand men
any large military force: the French Foreign Legion
(usually capital) an association of ex-servicemen: the British Legion
(often plural) any very large number, esp of people
(usually postpositive) very large or numerous
Origin of legion
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