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单词 legion
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legion
noun[C]
uk
/ˈliː.dʒən/us
/ˈliː.dʒən/

legionnoun[C](SOLDIERS)

alargegroupofsoldierswhoformapartof anarmy,especiallytheancientRomanarmy:
（尤指古罗马的）军团
Caesar's legionsmarchedthrough France andcrossedintoBritain.恺撒的军团穿过法国进入英国。
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Ancient history: before 500 AD
  • ancient
  • ancients
  • antiquity
  • archaic
  • Bactrian
  • centurion
  • Delphic
  • dolmen
  • Euphrates
  • gladiator
  • glyph
  • Hellenic
  • hieroglyph
  • necropolis
  • Parthenon
  • pharaoh
  • procurator
  • Qin dynasty
  • Romano-
  • sarcophagus
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Soldiers in the past

legionnoun[C](MANY)

legions ofsomeone
largenumbersofpeople:
大批的（人）
Hefailedtoturnup for theconcert,disappointingthe legions offanswaitingoutside.他没有在音乐会上露面，这让等在场外的众多歌迷感到非常失望。
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Masses and large amounts of things
  • accumulation
  • any number ofthingsidiom
  • armload
  • backlog
  • bolus
  • flood
  • foam
  • logjam
  • many
  • motherlode
  • multi-million
  • multitude
  • pile
  • stack
  • the lion's shareidiom
  • tsunami
  • wave after/upon waveidiom
  • wedge
  • welter
  • wodge
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legion
adjective[after verb]
formal
uk
/ˈliː.dʒən/us
/ˈliː.dʒən/
verylargeinnumber:
大量的，众多的
Thedifficultiessurroundingthecourtcaseare legion.这个庭审案件困难重重。
Synonym
numerous
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Large in number or quantity
  • above and beyond sthidiom
  • amount
  • and then someidiom
  • another
  • any amount ofidiom
  • bag
  • half
  • in bucketsidiom
  • in spadesidiom
  • incalculable
  • innumerable
  • load up onsomething
  • million
  • super-large
  • thick on the groundidiom
  • thing
  • tremendous
  • untold
  • upward(s) of
  • whole
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(Definition oflegionfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

legion| American Dictionary

legion
noun[C]
us
/ˈli·dʒən/
a verylargegroupofsoldierswhoformpartof anarmy,esp. of anancientRomanarmy, or anylargegroupofpeople:
Legions offansattendedtheconcert.
(Definition oflegionfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflegion

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While virtually no one had seen her coming in 1943, now it seemed legions were prepared.
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Legal advice as to what extent the actual iconography and style of the real-life legions could be used was taken at every stage.
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One must, however, be careful to distinguish the wares used by the legions from that of the auxiliary units.
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As a result they joined the legions of landless generational farm-labourers who sustained an uneconomic and heavily subsidised white-owned commercial agricultural sector.
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The latter often had great designs for what they considered their legions.
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By the 1830s they made up over 40 per cent of its legions.
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There were no legions of painters bemoaning the lack of tools to realise their visions or calling for engineers to assist them in doing so.
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Even the area down at the riverside would not hold them all, so that the legions had to make various other encampments, scattered wherever there was suitable ground.
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The uses of plants arelegion: for medicine, for food and drink, for domestic, agricultural and seafaring purposes, for magical functions, or simply for luck.
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The tube islegion, and thickens with each oscillation.
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The number of relational views islegion, since there are many ways of measuring inequality.
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Her effects are ever-present andlegion, but utterly dissociated from their origin.
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The distinctions between each work, as speculative as some of them are, arelegionand most are actually audible.
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As part of their senatorial or equestrian career (cursus honorum) they served with the legions.
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We have had to call back our legions and to call them back for precisely the same purpose.
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