Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A member of a legion.

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  • noun A member of a legion, especially the French Foreign Legion.

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  • noun a member of the American Legion
  • noun a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French légionnaire, from Old French, from legion, legion; see legion.]

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Borrowing from French légionnaire.

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Examples

  • In comparison, the contretemps with the local citizen convinced that he had been robbed by a legionnaire was a trivial matter.

    Phule me twice Asprin, Robert 2001

  • A charr legionnaire whipped his head back and forth, eyes blazing.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • Intelligence chains had been set up in Tunisia, Algeria, and French Morocco manned by an odd collection of foreign agents with comical code names like “Pink Eye” for a former legionnaire organizing midlevel French officers who hated the Nazis.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • A former French legionnaire who returned to Croatia when the war erupted in 1991, Gotovina commanded the central operations that won the war for Croatia in August 1995, retaking the strategic town of Knin in the Dalmatian hinterland that was – the seat of a four-year-old Serbian insurgency that left Croatia crippled and partitioned.

    Croatia awaits verdict in Ante Gotovina war crimes trial 2011

  • Later, a legionnaire called him a deserter, and Rytlock killed him as well.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • Intelligence chains had been set up in Tunisia, Algeria, and French Morocco manned by an odd collection of foreign agents with comical code names like “Pink Eye” for a former legionnaire organizing midlevel French officers who hated the Nazis.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • A charr legionnaire whipped his head back and forth, eyes blazing.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • Later, a legionnaire called him a deserter, and Rytlock killed him as well.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • Later, a legionnaire called him a deserter, and Rytlock killed him as well.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • A charr legionnaire whipped his head back and forth, eyes blazing.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

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