legionnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈliː.dʒən/us/ˈliː.dʒən/legion noun [ C ] (SOLDIERS)
a large group of soldiers who form a part of an army, especially the ancient Roman army:
Caesar's legions marched through France and crossed into Britain.
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Ancient history: before 500 AD
- ancient
- antiquity
- archaic
- Celt
- centurion
- classical
- gladiator
- Grecian
- Hellenic
- Hippocrates
- mummy
- necropolis
- neoclassical
- Neogene
- Romano-
- sarcophagus
- Saturnalia
- the Bronze Age
- the Christian era
- the Iron Age
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Soldiers in the past
legion noun [ C ] (MANY)
legions of sb
large numbers of people:
He failed to turn up for the concert, disappointing the legions of fans waiting outside.
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Masses and large amounts of things
- accumulation
- an embarrassment of riches idiom
- any number of things idiom
- backlog
- battery
- boatload
- bolus
- clot
- deluge
- fund
- lashing
- lather
- outpouring
- panoply
- plethora
- predominance
- preponderance
- sheet
- shower
- thousand
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legionadjective [ after verb ]
uk/ˈliː.dʒən/us/ˈliː.dʒən/formalvery large in number:
The difficulties surrounding the court case are legion.
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Large in number or quantity
- a (whole) heap of sth idiom
- a hundred/thousand/million and one idiom
- a whole lot idiom
- amount
- and then some idiom
- full-on
- half
- heap
- huge
- in buckets idiom
- in spades idiom
- lot
- million
- some
- thick on the ground idiom
- thing
- tremendous
- untold
- upward(s) of
- whole
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