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1. Legion
   HMS Legion was a British Lightning class destroyer of 1920 tons displacement built under the British War construction programme and launched in 1940 and sunk during the Second World War. She was armed with six 4.7-inch guns; several smaller guns and eight 21-inch torpedo tubes. She was powered by tw...
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2. legion
   [n] - association of ex-servicemen 2. [n] - a large military unit
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3. legion
   Roman army unit. In the later Republic and the empire a legion comprised 5,000-6,000 men, mainly foot soldiers, organized in centuries (units of 60-100). Legions were designated by numbers and...
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4. legion
   A section of the Roman army made up of male Roman citizens. A legion consisted of heavily armoured infantry (foot soldiers) which became a feared force, well disciplined and well trained. A legion contained approximately 5,000 men divided into 10 cohorts of 480 men, sub-divided into 6 centuries of 80 men which were divided into 10 groups of 8, each…
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5. Legion
   A Roman army unit of 5, 000 men under the command of a legatus legionis. The legion would be broken down into smaller units if necessary. Legionaries, the actual soldiers, were Roman citizens and included engineers and surveyors for major building projects. The nearest legionary base was at York.
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6. Legion
   Le'gion (lē'jŭn) noun [ Middle English legioun , Old French legion , French légion , from Latin legio , from legere to gather, collect. See Legend .] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A body of fo...
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7. Legion
   • (n.) A military force; an army; military bands. • (n.) A great number; a multitude. • (n.) 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. • (n...
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8. legion
   a military organization, originally the largest permanent organization in the armies of ancient Rome. The term legion also denotes the military ... [5 related articles]
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9. legion
   legion 1. In ancient Rome, a Roman army division of 3 000 to 6 000 soldiers, including cavalry. 2. A large number of people or things. 3. An association of ex-servicemen and ex-service women. 4. Etymology: from Old French legion, 'Roman legion' (3,000 to 6,000 men, under Marius usually with attache...
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10. legion
    
    • archaic terms for army
    • association of ex-servicemen
    • a large military unit
    • a vast multitude
    
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11. legion
    legion, large unit of the Roman army. It came into prominence c.400 B.C. It originally consisted of 3,000 to 4,000 men drawn into eight ranks: the first six ranks, called hoplites, were heavily armed, while the last two, called velites, were only lightly armed. Marcus Furius Camillus is traditionall...
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12. Legion
    (software) `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 computation...
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13. Legion
    (Marvel Comics) image= --> `Legion (David Charles Haller)` is a Marvel Comics character, created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Bill Sienkiewicz. David is the mutant son of Charles Xavier and Israeli Holocaust survivor Gabrielle Haller. He has severe mental illness, including a form of ...
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14. Legion
    (demon) :See Legion (disambiguation) for other concepts with this name. `Legion` is 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 Gerasen...
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15. Legion
    (DC Comics) `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 ...
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16. Legion
    (album) `Legion` is the second full length album by the American death metal band Deicide. It was released by Roadrunner Records in 1992. Legion is more musically ambitious than most of Deicide`s other albums, incorporating more technical riffing and song structures. The album r...
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17. Legion
    (Image Comics) `The Legion` are a fictional group of lost souls who are trapped inside the comic book character Spawn. There are apparently over 6,000 souls living within him, each of whom died within an hour of Al Simmons. They were meant by the Mother of Creation as a "device" to ...
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18. Legion
    (novel) `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 name is derived from The Bible, particularly The Gospel of Luke, w...
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19. Legion
    (Red Dwarf) "`Legion`" is the second episode of science fiction sit-com accessdate =2008-02-01-->--> It was first broadcast on United Kingdom|British television on 14 October 1993.<ref name="BBC - Programme Catalogue - RED DWARF VI - LEGION">--> Written by Rob Grant ...
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20. Legion
    (biology) The `legion`, in biological taxonomy, is a non-obligatory taxonomic rank within the Linnaean hierarchy which is subordinate to the class but superordinate to the cohort. It consists of a group of related orders and has been employed in some classifications of birds and mammals. Legi...
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