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legion

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1. legion - Noun

2. legion - Adjective

3. legion - Verb

4. legion - Adjective Satellite

5. Legion - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

A military force; an army; military bands.

A great number; a multitude.

A group of orders inferior to a class.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. André Gide

But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire, which gradually destroyed itself by substituting the faith in a legion of miraculous words for the strength of armies and the weight of walls. Lewis H. Lapham

There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest. Rudyard Kipling

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion. Gustave Flaubert

He that is busy is tempted but by one devil, he that is idle by a legion. Italian Proverb

He that is busy is tempted but by one devil, he that is idle by a legion. German Proverb

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