Synonyms for legions

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1. legions

   An army is an organized body of men armed for war, ordinarily considerable in numbers, always independent in organization so far as not to be a constituent part of any other command. Organization, unity, and independence, rather than numbers are the essentials of an army. We speak of the invading army of Cortes or Pizarro, tho either body was contemptible in numbers from a modern military standpoint. We may have a little army, a large army, or a vast army. Host is used for any vast and orderly assemblage; as, the stars are called the heavenly host. Multitude expresses number without order or organization; a multitude of armed men is not an army, but a mob. Legion (from the Latin) and phalanx (from the Greek) are applied by a kind of poetic license to modern forces; the plural legions is preferred to the singular. Military is a general word for land-forces; the military may include all the armed soldiery of a nation, or the term may be applied to any small detached company, as at a fort, in distinction from civilians. Any organized body of men by whom the law or will of a people is executed is a force; the word is a usual term for the police of any locality.

   Synonyms:
   armament, army, array, force, forces, host, military, multitude, phalanx, soldiers, soldiery, troops

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1. legions(n. pl)

   Synonyms:
   battalions, troops, soldiers

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1. Phil Edwards:

   The legions of the unjazzed

2. William Makepeace Thackeray:

   We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth -- all these belong to the old period. But your railroad starts the new era, and we of a certain age belong to the new time and the old one. We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark.

3. Juvenal, Satires:

   The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses!

4. James Oberg:

   In my research on various space/missile events which have given rise to spectacular UFO stories, I have relied on and trusted the diligent work of past chroniclers and try to express gratitude to them, these research results are dedicated to the legions of unsung and often anonymous worldwide chroniclers of UFO reports and other anomalous observations which so often fall through the cracks of scientific attention.

5. James Oberg:

   These research results are dedicated to the legions of unsung and often anonymous worldwide chroniclers of UFO reports and other anomalous observations which so often fall through the cracks of scientific attention.

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