legion

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈliː.d͡ʒən/    美 /ˈliː.d͡ʒən/|/ˈli.d͡ʒən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops. Ancient-Rome
  2. A combined arms major military unit featuring cavalry, infantry, and artillery, including historical units such as the British Legion, and present-day units such as the Spanish Legion and the French Foreign Legion.
  3. 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.
  4. A national organization or association of former servicemen, such as the American Legion.
  5. 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.
  6. A great number. often,plural
    — where one Sin has entered, Legions will force their Way through the fame Breach.
  7. 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. dated
动词 v.
  1. To form into legions. transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Numerous; vast; very great in number. not-comparable
    — Russia’s labor and capital resources are woefully inadequate to overcome the state’s needs and vulnerabilities, which are legion.

词形变化

legions plural legions present,singular,third-person legioning participle,present legioned participle,past legioned past

词汇关系

衍生词
foreign legion infralegion legionella legionry sublegion superlegion
相关词
legionary legionnaire

词源

词源 1
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".
词源 2
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".
词源 3
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".
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