(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.
Multitude
Definition:
(n.) A great number of persons collected together; a numerous collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly.
(n.) A great number of persons or things, regarded collectively; as, the book will be read by a multitude of people; the multitude of stars; a multitude of cares.
(n.) The state of being many; numerousness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
(2) The basic question about the future of media perhaps becomes clearer and can more succinctly be asked: will Facebook be earning more from its multitude of users in 10 years – when there are no more users to be had – or will Comcast?
(3) Isocyanates are highly reactive chemicals capable of causing a multitude of toxicologic effects including respiratory irritation, dermal irritation, contact sensitivity, and pulmonary hypersensitivity.
(4) Pulmonary edema probably will always remain difficult to their mechanism of production, in so far as can be estimated from the multitude of substances.
(5) In a complex so large that travelator conveyor belts were installed to ferry visitors between the exhibition halls, the multitude of new gadgets on display can be bewildering.
(6) Its assessment is a damning one on a health service that was struggling with a multitude of problems and at a time of great change.
(7) The present results show that propentofylline and its hydroxylated metabolite can influence adenosine mechanisms in a multitude of ways.
(8) Conformational study on phosphopantetheine shows that this compound has an intrinsic tendency to adopt a multitude of conformations which contain hydrogen bonds involving the sulphydryl, hydroxyl, carbonyl and amide groups.
(9) A multitude of topical agents have been tried with variable results.
(10) I never felt stirrings of faith – apart from when faced with natural wonders such as the multilayered celestial splendour of a night sky, my newborn babies, an epic coastline – so I embraced tolerance and tried to remain open to the multitude of organised belief systems I don’t share.
(11) Furthermore, this patient presents a multitude of complications developing from large angiomas.
(12) I wonder: are there any historical precedents for the ageing multitudes who now keep rock'n'roll in business?
(13) The multitude of caval filters now available and conflicting experimental and clinical findings indicate that no one model can be considered to be perfect.
(14) Chronic renal failure (CRF) is the consequence of a multitude of diseases that cause permanent destruction of the nephron.
(15) Despite the multitude of losses we experience in our lifetime, death is likely to be the most paramount.
(16) A multitude of variants can be mounted from just four system components.
(17) Injections of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) into the habenula of squirrel monkeys labeled a multitude of neurons in the lateal hypothalamus and a lesser number of neurons in the internal pallidum (GPi).
(18) Separation of the symptoms of this syndrome from the symptoms of a multitude of other postgastrectomy syndromes is difficult, being complicated by a high incidence of emotional instability in these patients.
(19) Because we have this multitude of games, I hope Remy picks it up,” Hiddink said.
(20) The answer lies in the multitude of tiny modifiable connections between neuronal cells, the information-processing units of the brain.