host, legion (noun)

archaic terms for army

legion (noun)

association of ex-servicemen

"the American Legion"

legion (noun)

a large military unit

"the French Foreign Legion"

horde, host, legion (adj)

a vast multitude

numerous, legion(p) (adj)

amounting to a large indefinite number

"numerous times"; "the family was numerous"; "Palomar's fans are legion"

legion (Noun)

The major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.

legion (Noun)

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

legion (Noun)

(often Legion or the Legion) A national organization or association of former servicemen, such as the American Legion, founded in 1919.

legion (Noun)

A large number of people; a multitude.

legion (Noun)

(often plural) A great number.

legion (Noun)

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.

legion (Adjective)

Numerous; vast; very great in number; multitudinous.

Legion

Legion are a group of demons referred to in the Christian Bible. The New Testament outlines an encounter where Jesus healed a man from Gadarenes possessed by demons while traveling, known as Exorcising the Gerasenes demonic.