legion meaning
EN
[ˈliːdʒən] [-iːdʒən] WLegion
- Legion may refer to:
FR légion 
- NounPLlegionsSUF-ion
- (military, Ancient Rome) The major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.
- (military, obsolete) a combined arms major military unit featuring cavalry, infantry, and artillery.
- (military) A large military or semimilitary unit trained for combat; any military force; an army, regiment; an armed, organized and assembled militia.
- (often Legion or the Legion) A national organization or association of former servicemen, such as the American Legion, founded in 1919.
- A large number of people; a multitude.
- (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
- (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.
- (military, Ancient Rome) The major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.
- Adjective
- Numerous; vast; very great in number; multitudinous.
- Russia’s labor and capital resources are woefully inadequate to overcome the state’s needs and vulnerabilities, which are legion.
- Numerous; vast; very great in number; multitudinous.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Yet somehow the capuchins manage to either outwit or outrun the forest’s legions of parasites.
- If you try to change the school schedule like that, you'll be up against legions of angry parents.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of legion in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Nouns
- Collective nouns
- Countable nouns
- Collective nouns
- Adjectives
- en legions
- en legioned
- en legionry
- en legionary
- en legionries
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "legion" is an adjective, more specifically, an uncomparable adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a collective noun and a countable noun.