Crossword clues for legion
legion
- Support in boxing ring for army
- Number one amongst cricket sides
- No right to shackle large number
- Army prisoner restraint is missing lower end
- Host's possible answer to "Do you use hairspray to hold your hair back?"
- Roman army division
- Troop group
- Army group
- Military force
- "American" or "Foreign" follower
- Unit of the Roman army
- Second Deicide album
- Roman army unit
- Large military unit
- Foreign ____
- Division of the Roman army
- Armed forces support group
- American or Foreign
- ___ of Boom (Seattle Seahawks secondary)
- Multitudinous
- French Foreign ___
- Numerous
- Multitude of fans
- Veterans' group, informally
- American ___ (veterans' group)
- Army division
- A vast multitude
- A large military unit
- Association of ex-servicemen
- Archaic terms for army
- Innumerable
- American or Foreign follower
- Very great number, for example, devoured by big cat
- Vast multitude
- Group of soldiers in region changing direction at first
- Great many on one leg
- Great in number
- Military unit — very great in number
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Legion \Le"gion\ (l[=e]"j[u^]n), n. [OE. legioun, OF. legion, F. l['e]gion, fr. L. legio, fr. legere to gather, collect. See Legend.]
(Rom. Antiq.) A body of foot soldiers and cavalry consisting of different numbers at different periods, -- from about four thousand to about six thousand men, -- the cavalry being about one tenth.
A military force; an army; military bands.
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A great number; a multitude.
Where one sin has entered, legions will force their way through the same breach.
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(Taxonomy) A group of orders inferior to a class.
Legion of honor, an order instituted by the French government in 1802, when Bonaparte was First Consul, as a reward for merit, both civil and military.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, from Old French legion "Roman legion" (3,000 to 6,000 men, under Marius usually with attached cavalry), from Latin legionem (nominative legio) "body of soldiers," from legere "to choose, gather," also "to read" (see lecture (n.)).\n
\nGeneralized sense of "a large number" is due to translations of allusive phrase in Mark v:9. American Legion, U.S. association of ex-servicemen, founded in 1919. Legion of Honor is French légion d'honneur, an order of distinction founded by Napoleon in 1802. Foreign Legion is French légion étrangère "body of foreign volunteers in a modern army," originally Polish, Belgian, etc. units in French army; they traditionally served in colonies or distant expeditions.
Wiktionary
a. numerous; vast; very great in number; multitudinous. n. 1 (context military Ancient Rome English) The major unit or division of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops. 2 (context military obsolete English) a combined arms major military unit featuring cavalry, infantry, and artillery 3 (context military English) A large military or semimilitary unit trained for combat; any military force; an army, regiment; an armed, organized and assembled militia. 4 (context often '''Legion''' or '''the Legion''' English) A national organization or association of former servicemen, such as the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Legion, founded in 1919. 5 A large number of people; a multitude. 6 (context often plural English) A great number. 7 (context dated taxonomy English) 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.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Legion may refer to:
Legion is a computer software system variously classified as a distributed operating system, a peer-to-peer system, metacomputing software, or middleware. It is an object-based system designed to provide secure, transparent access to large numbers of machines, both to computational power and data.
The project was funded by the National Science Foundation and other funding agencies, and was mostly developed at the University of Virginia by a group led by Andrew Grimshaw. The Legion people formed the Avaki Corporation to commercialize the project in 1999, but Avaki eventually abandoned the Legion software base, and finally went bankrupt in 2005, with its intellectual property acquired by Sybase.
Legion is the successor to Hydra, developed to run on the C.mmp hardware system developed at Carnegie Mellon University in the late 1960s.
One of the slogans of the Legion project is "mechanism, not policy!"
Legion (David Charles Haller) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Bill Sienkiewicz, and first appeared in New Mutants #25 (March 1985). Legion is the mutant son of Professor Charles Xavier and Gabrielle Haller. He takes the role of an antihero and has a severe mental illness, including a form of dissociative identity disorder, with each of his personas controlling one of his many superpowers.
Legion is a fictional supervillain in the DC Comics universe. He was created by Keith Giffen, Gerard Jones, and Romeo Tanghal. He is a foe of Abin Sur, the Green Lantern of Sector 2814, the Silver Age Green Lantern and the Green Lantern Corps. His only appearance is in the 1990 mini-series Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn.
Legion is the second full-length album by American death metal band Deicide. It was released by Roadrunner Records on June 9, 1992.
Legion is a 1983 horror novel by William Peter Blatty, a sequel to The Exorcist. It was made into the movie The Exorcist III in 1990. Like The Exorcist, it involves demonic possession. The book was the focus of a court case over its exclusion from The New York Times Best Seller list.
Blatty based aspects of the Gemini Killer on the real life Zodiac Killer, who, in a January 1974 letter to the San Francisco Chronicle, had praised the original Exorcist film as "the best satirical comedy that I have ever seen".
"Legion" is the second episode of science fiction sit-com Red Dwarf Series VI and the 32nd in the series run. It was first broadcast on British television on 14 October 1993, was written by Rob Grant & Doug Naylor and was directed by Andy de Emmony.
The legion, in biological classification, is a non-obligatory taxonomic rank within the Linnaean hierarchy sometimes used in zoology.
Legion is a 2010 American apocalyptic supernatural action horror film directed by Scott Stewart and co-written by Stewart and Peter Schink. The cast includes Paul Bettany, Lucas Black, Tyrese Gibson, Adrianne Palicki, Kate Walsh, and Dennis Quaid. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group acquired most of this film's worldwide distribution rights, and the group opened this film in North America theatrically on January 22, 2010 through Screen Gems.
A television series called Dominion, set 25 years after the end of the film, premiered on the American cable television network Syfy on June 19, 2014.
Legion is a 1998 television film directed by Jon Hess (aka John Daniel Hess and Jon Daniel Hess) with screenplay by Patrick Highsmith and Evan Spiliotopoulos. It was produced by Avi Nesher for Mahagonny Pictures and Conquistador Entertainment Inc. and aired first on April 18, 1998.
The film stars Terry Farrell (best known for her performances in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Becker), Corey Feldman and Trevor Goddard.
Nesher is also known for his screenplay Doppelganger (1993) and as director of the HBO films Savage and Mercenary (both 1996)
Legion is a series of science fiction novellas written by American author Brandon Sanderson. The first book, titled Legion, was first published on August 31, 2012 by Subterranean Press, followed in November 2014 by Legion: Skin Deep. The books gained favorable reviews.
Legion is an upcoming American science fiction television series created for FX by Noah Hawley, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Produced by Marvel Television and FX Productions, it is the first series by Marvel Television to not be set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The series acts as a stand-alone installment in the X-Men franchise, with Legion being a mutant like the characters in the X-Men feature films. Producers have stated that the series will take place in a parallel-universe to the main film series, thus being set within an alternate timeline. Among others, Bryan Singer, Lauren Shuler Donner, and Simon Kinberg, key individuals in the creative team behind the X-Men film series, will act as executive producers.
The pilot, written and directed by Hawley, was filmed in Vancouver in the spring of 2016. On May 31, 2016, FX picked up Legion to series, with an eight-episode order. Production is slated to begin summer 2016, and the series will debut on FX in early 2017.
Legion is an American-based deathcore act from Columbus, Ohio currently signed to Good Fight Entertainment and eOne Music. Their debut album, Woke was released on July 30, 2013. The band has been said to use elements of heavy hardcore, beatdown, and metallic hardcore in their music with an emphasis of slowed-down riffs and guttural vocals similar to The Acacia Strain and Whitechapel.
Usage examples of "legion".
The impunity of rapine had increased the boldness and numbers of the wild Isaurians: those robbers descended from their craggy mountains to ravage the adjacent country, and had even presumed, though without success, to besiege the important city of Seleucia, which was defended by a garrison of three Roman legions.
I had been advanced to the rank of tribune in the Second Legion Adjutrix, and passed some months of a rainy autumn on the banks of the Upper Danube with no other companion than a newly published volume of Plutarch.
Downward they fled, From under the haunted roof, To the valley aquake with the tread Of an iron-resounding hoof, As of legions of thunderful horse Broken loose and in line tramping hard.
Then the Idumaean prince Antipater, who stands very high at the Jewish court of Hyrcanus, suggested that I recall the legion Aulus Gabinius left in Egypt after he reinstated Ptolemy Auletes on his throne.
The dragon, originally known as Bazil of Quosh, had been the proudest issue of their line of Legion wyverns.
Instead of exposing his person and his legions to the arrows of the Parthians, he obtained, by an honorable treaty, the restitution of the standards and prisoners which had been taken in the defeat of Crassus.
Legion General Bill Booly followed the corridor that circled the outer edge of the wheel-shaped space station, he found himself rubbing shoulders with all manner of fellow beings, including brightly feathered Prithians, hulking Hudathans, work-worn androids, exoskeleton-clad Dwellers, cybernetic humans, and more.
Then, abruptly, men were screaming, crying and fighting for the precious bracky, like the legions of the damned grabbing for lottery tickets when the prize was a passport to paradise.
Now he had come to Noche Buena to teach the artillery of the Legion how to shoot straight, after which they would all march south and take the great city with the golden gates.
I mean to take the legion onto Toman Head, Byar, and see what the true Darkfriends, these Seanchan, are up to.
But since that period he has behaved towards me with the utmost ingratitude --entered into all the silly cabala against me, blamed all my measures, and turned into ridicule the Legion of Honour.
So before the subject was even broached I went into my Cabbalist act and gave Ed and Elsie to believe that I was naught more than an errand-boy for a legion of wizards and alchemists in the Islands of Solomon.
He had offered to retrieve the space cache and trade it to the Space Legion for a powerful military weapon, if the Kranjovians would build a space transmitter and provide him with the necessary submarine gear.
However, the father was not without some influence, and was able to procure the boy a cadetship in the legion Marcus Crassus had recruited for Sulla after he landed in Italy and began his war against Carbo.
Gnaeus Papirius Carbo- twice consul of Rome and now governor of Italian Gaul- should put himself, his eight legions and his cavalry into camp on the fringes of Ariminum.