legion

Meanings

1. 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. 2
   noun

   A large military or semi-military unit trained for combat; any military force; an army, regiment; an armed, organized and assembled militia.

   Efforts to unionize were routinely met with clubbings, shootings, jailings, blacklistings and executions, perpetrated not only by well-armed legions of company goons, but also by police officers, deputies, National Guardsmen and even regular soldiers.

3. 3
   noun

   A large number of people; a multitude.

   With all due respect to Aaron, every era seems to have had its legion of wrongdoers and shortcutters who used whatever science was available to get an edge.

4. 4
   noun

   A great number.

   where one Sin has entered, Legions will force their Way through the fame Breach.

5. 5
   adj

   amounting to a large indefinite number

6. 6
   noun

   a vast multitude

7. 7
   noun

   archaic terms for army

8. 8
   noun

   a large military unit

Etymology

Attested (in Middle English, as legioun) around 1200, from Old French legion, from Latin legiō, legionem, from legō (“to gather, collect”); akin to legend, lecture. Doublet of León, which was borrowed from Spanish. Generalized sense of “a large number” is due to an allusive phrase in Mark 5:9, "My name is Legion, for we are many".