Legionary meaning

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Of, relating to, or constituting a legion.
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A soldier of a legion.
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Of or constituting a legion or legions.
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A member of a legion.
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Relating to, or consisting of a legion or legions.

A legionary force.

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Containing a great number.
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(military, Ancient Rome) A soldier belonging to a legion; a professional soldier of the ancient Roman army.
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A member of a legion, such as the American Legion, or of any organization containing the term legion in its title (e.g. the French Foreign Legion).
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Legionary Sentence Examples

  • 45-- 55) a Roman legionary fortress, held by Legio XIV.

  • The legionary fortresses were large rectangular others, principally (it seems) forts built before 150, wood is used freely and only the few principal buildings seem to have been constructed throughout of stone.

  • 48, but a legionary fortress (Isca Silurum, Caerleon) was planted in their midst and by A.D.

  • The emperor returned to Rome and celebrated a triumph (233), but next year he was called to face German invaders in Gaul, where he was slain (on the 18th or 10th of March 235), together with his mother, in a mutiny which was probably led by Maximinus, a Thracian legionary, and at any rate secured him the throne.

  • As Isca Silurum, it was one of the three great legionary fortresses of Roman Britain, established either about A.D.

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