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nounarchaic terms for army
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"Palomar's fans are legion"adjectiveamounting to a large indefinite number
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nouna vast multitude
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Definition that contains legion
- cohort a band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion)
- legionnaire a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion)
- legionnaire a member of the American Legion
- legionary a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion)
- teutoburger wald a battle in 9 AD in which the Germans under Arminius annihilated three Roman Legions
- legionella the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legionnaires' disease
- french foreign legion a former foreign legion in the French army that was used for military duties outside of France
- legionella pneumophilia the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legionnaires' disease
- legionnaires' disease acute (sometimes fatal) lobar pneumonia caused by bacteria of a kind first recognized after an outbreak of the disease at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in 1976; characterized by fever and muscle and chest pain and headache and chills and a dry cough
- battle of teutoburger wald a battle in 9 AD in which the Germans under Arminius annihilated three Roman Legions