(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.) A military force; an army; military bands.
(n.) A great number; a multitude.
(n.) A group of orders inferior to a class.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over the past 50 years, composer Steve Reich’s music has had a powerful impact – not only on the contemporary classical world, but also on legions of rock, pop, hip-hop, jazz, and electronic musicians.
(2) Until she was 14 or so Clare was just as devout, going to mass each morning, joining the Legion of Mary, visiting old ladies.
(3) The ex-comic ruled out giving a crucial confidence vote in parliament to a centre-left government and reiterated that the M5S's new legion of deputies and senators would vote on laws on a case-by-case basis.
(4) Next his wife, Jay Z isn't much a dancer, and when the tempo upped, he respectfully exited, letting her lead her Beyhive legions through their hip-shaking glory.
(5) How badly does he have to play before his legions of cheerleaders in the media will put down their pom-poms and pass comment on it?
(6) The cross will now move to the Royal British Legion’s national memorial arboretum in Staffordshire.
(7) Seann, how do you deal with the legions of female fans you attract?
(8) Protecting the poor and the vulnerable is crucial to the phasing down of these subsidies, but the multiple economic, social and environmental benefits are long and legion.” graph Barack Obama and the G20 nations called for an end to fossil fuel subsidies in 2009, but little progress had been made until oil prices fell in 2014.
(9) Ben Rubin hasn’t had much sleep over the last few days, and his legions of newly acquired fans have noticed.
(10) The obsession of "For Fatherland and Freedom" to pay public homage to the Latvian-SS Legion in contradiction to all historical logic and sensitivity to Nazi crimes is not a product of ostensibly harmless nostalgia as Pickles would have us believe, but part of a rather insidious plan to gain recognition for a perversely distorted version of European history which will officially equate Communism with Nazism.
(11) In 2002 he was seen dangling Prince Michael II from the balcony of a hotel room while legions of photographers watched in horror below.
(12) In human diseases we are rarely able to obtain data at precisely the same time point in the course of the disease even among patients in the same study, and possible confounding variables present are legion.
(13) Therefore there is no reason to claim that there were any direct links between the legion and the war crimes previously committed by military or paramilitary organisations.
(14) Nestling beneath the craggy wall of Fort Saint-Jean, a 17th-century stronghold that once housed the Foreign Legion, the squat glass building is shielded from the harsh Mediterranean sun by a dark filigree veil.
(15) Mostly, these legions of the displaced are heading for Europe .
(16) Aldi has vowed to maintain the supermarket price war that has drawn legions of cost-conscious shoppers to its aisles as it announced a 65% increase in its UK profits.
(17) Japan's legions of salaried workers have more reason than most to give in to the urge for an afternoon nap.
(18) In just three weeks Richard Harries, the former Bishop of Oxford, has set up a Commission on Civil Society , which has already held emergency hearings on the bill all round the UK, backed by Christian Aid, Women's Institutes, the Countryside Alliance, 38 Degrees , Oxfam, vegans, Quakers, the British Legion and scores more.
(19) A total of 2858 randomly selected American Legion members who had served in Southeast Asia completed a questionnaire which elicited information on military service, personal health, and a variety of mental health outcomes.
(20) He has also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal and the Legion of Honour.
Legionnaire
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The annual number of confirmed cases of Legionnaires' disease in both Nottingham, and England and Wales, reached a peak in 1980 and has since declined.
(2) Neurologic symptoms are common in Legionnaires' disease, but the pathogenesis of these symptoms is not known.
(3) We suggest that in hairy cell leukaemia both monocytopenia and defective functions of monocytes underlie the increased susceptibility to intracellular infections including Legionnaires' disease.
(4) These persistent high titres make the serologic diagnosis of Legionnaires' disease difficult.
(5) From June 1989 to March 1990 there were eight cases of Legionnaires' disease caused by Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 in a renal transplant unit.
(6) Nosocomial Legionnaires disease can be acquired by exposure to the organism from the hospital water distribution system.
(7) This report draws attention to: (1) the fact that bacteriological filters do not ensure absolute security; (2) the need for frequent monitoring of the two factors governing legionella growth, water temperature and chlorination; and (3) the effectiveness of quinolones as a curative and prophylactic treatment of legionnaires' disease in transplanted patients avoiding pharmacological cyclosporin interaction.
(8) Legionnaires' disease may cause severe multisystem damage.
(9) In 21 of 30 patients with Legionnaires' disease, L pneumophila was isolated from respiratory specimens.
(10) When we consider those indications, Legionnaires' disease might be one of the typical infectious disease to show the benefits of the DNA probe method in diagnosis.
(11) The incidence of Legionnaire's disease is probably underestimated in France.
(12) In January 1977 an unsolved outbreak of infection at St. Elizabeth's Hospital (Washington, D.C.) that occurred in 1965 was linked with Legionnaires' disease.
(13) Serology remains the most commonly used method in the diagnosis of Legionnaires' disease.
(14) We conclude that antigens are excreted in the urine of at least some patients with Legionnaires' disease caused by serogroup 4 and Leiden 1 strain.
(15) In 1979, an isolated case of legionnaires' disease in a 46 year old Caucasian male Ohio physician was reported.
(16) All Legionnaires' disease (LD) patients were in the hospital before onset of illness (median time from admission to onset, 17 days; range, 3 to 276 days).
(17) The diagnosis was established serologically by a 32-fold rise in antibody titer to the agent of Legionnaires' disease.
(18) Therefore, it is essential to include legionnaires' disease into the diagnostics of pneumonia of unknown origin.
(19) The results of this study suspected that acute feverish disease and pneumonia of compromised host such as hemodialysis patients should be always thought of Legionnaires' infection.
(20) A rapidly progressive, crescentic glomerulonephritis with acute oliguric renal failure occurred simultaneously with legionnaires' disease (LD) in a 52-year-old man.