| legion | |
| 1. adj. Numerous; vast; very great in number | |
| Russia’s labor and capital resources are woefully inadequate to overcome the state’s needs and vulnerabilities, which are legion. | |
| 2. n. (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. | |
| 3. n. (military, obsolete) a combined arms major military unit featuring cavalry, infantry, and artillery | |
| 4. n. (military) A large military or semi-military unit trained for combat; any military force; an army, regiment; an armed, organized and assembled militia. | |
| 5. n. (often Legion or the Legion) A national organization or association of former servicemen, such as the American Legion. | |
| 6. n. A large number of people; a multitude. | |
| 7. n. (often plural) A great number. | |
| 8. n. (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. | |
| 9. v. To form into legions. | |
