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Large in number or quantity
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legion | American Dictionary

legion
noun[ C ]
us/ˈli·dʒən/
a very large group of soldiers who form part of an army, esp. of an ancient Roman army, or any large group of people:
Legions of fans attended the concert.

Examples of legion

legion
While virtually no one had seen her coming in 1943, now it seemed legions were prepared.
Legal advice as to what extent the actual iconography and style of the real-life legions could be used was taken at every stage.
One must, however, be careful to distinguish the wares used by the legions from that of the auxiliary units.
As a result they joined the legions of landless generational farm-labourers who sustained an uneconomic and heavily subsidised white-owned commercial agricultural sector.
The latter often had great designs for what they considered their legions.
By the 1830s they made up over 40 per cent of its legions.
There were no legions of painters bemoaning the lack of tools to realise their visions or calling for engineers to assist them in doing so.
Even the area down at the riverside would not hold them all, so that the legions had to make various other encampments, scattered wherever there was suitable ground.
The uses of plants are legion: for medicine, for food and drink, for domestic, agricultural and seafaring purposes, for magical functions, or simply for luck.
The tube is legion, and thickens with each oscillation.
The number of relational views is legion, since there are many ways of measuring inequality.
Her effects are ever-present and legion, but utterly dissociated from their origin.
The distinctions between each work, as speculative as some of them are, are legion and most are actually audible.
As part of their senatorial or equestrian career (cursus honorum) they served with the legions.
We have had to call back our legions and to call them back for precisely the same purpose.
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