Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or constituting a legion.
- noun A soldier of a legion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or consisting of a legion or legions: as, legionary discipline; a legionary soldier; a legionary force.
- Containing a great number.
- noun One of a legion; especially, a Roman soldier belonging to a legion or a subaltern member of the Legion of Honor.
- noun The neuter of a kind of red ant: so named by Huber. It is probably the neuter of Polyergus rufescens, a slave-making species.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A member of a legion.
- adjective Belonging to a legion; consisting of a legion or legions, or of an indefinitely great number
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to, or consisting of a
legion or legions. - adjective Containing a great number.
- noun military A soldier belonging to a
legion ; a professional soldier of the ancient Roman army. - noun 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).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion)
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Examples
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The legionary is also wearing an apron of leather strips featuring metal plates hanging from his belt, and caligae, leather sandals with iron hobnails.
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The legionary is dressed in a galea, a metal helmet with cheek guards, and a cuirass, body armour comprising overlapping iron plates.
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I think the key word is 'legionary': those forts were for cavalry and auxiliary units.
Airminded 2010
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He led us to a tent much larger than the others and set apart on slightly higher ground, with a legionary eagle planted beside it.
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Fourteen-year-old Avitus was paraded before legionary troops stationed near Emesa.
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America's legionary army, compared to those of Europe, is large, yet it is incapable any longer of achieving grand goals.
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But what he also did was layer on top of that a number of extreme measures, such as the so-called private vows, whereby each legionary took an oath never to speak ill of Father Maciel, never to criticize him, and to report to any superior even mild criticism within the ranks that anyone might have.
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The ‘Anglian Tower’ is a small stone tower in the north-west wall of the Roman legionary fortress at York.
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Almost uniquely, the woman, Marta, already wore legionary battle dress and had rank and some badges neither Maria nor Inez recognized.
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The women sang much of the time, and nearly all the time they were marching, scores of songs from the legionary songbook, plus a few of their own.
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