Meaning of legion in English
(Definition of legion from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of legion from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of legion
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While virtually no one had seen her coming in 1943, now it seemed legions were prepared.
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Legal advice as to what extent the actual iconography and style of the real-life legions could be used was taken at every stage.
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One must, however, be careful to distinguish the wares used by the legions from that of the auxiliary units.
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As a result they joined the legions of landless generational farm-labourers who sustained an uneconomic and heavily subsidised white-owned commercial agricultural sector.
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The latter often had great designs for what they considered their legions.
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By the 1830s they made up over 40 per cent of its legions.
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There were no legions of painters bemoaning the lack of tools to realise their visions or calling for engineers to assist them in doing so.
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Even the area down at the riverside would not hold them all, so that the legions had to make various other encampments, scattered wherever there was suitable ground.
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The uses of plants are legion: for medicine, for food and drink, for domestic, agricultural and seafaring purposes, for magical functions, or simply for luck.
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The tube is legion, and thickens with each oscillation.
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The number of relational views is legion, since there are many ways of measuring inequality.
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Her effects are ever-present and legion, but utterly dissociated from their origin.
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The distinctions between each work, as speculative as some of them are, are legion and most are actually audible.
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As part of their senatorial or equestrian career (cursus honorum) they served with the legions.
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We have had to call back our legions and to call them back for precisely the same purpose.
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legiun, banyak…
กองทหารของโรมัน, จำนวนมาก…
quân đoàn, rất nhiều…
legion, legia, moc…
legion, stor skara…
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die Legion, die Unmenge…
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