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Legion vs League - What's the difference?

legion | league |

As nouns the difference between legion and league

is that legion is the major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops while league is a group or association of cooperating members.

As an adjective legion

is numerous; vast; very great in number; multitudinous.

As a verb league is

to form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.

legion

English

(wikipedia legion)

Adjective

(-)
  • Numerous; vast; very great in number; multitudinous.
    • Russia's labor and capital resources are woefully inadequate to overcome the state's needs and vulnerabilities, which are legion .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (military, Ancient Rome) The major unit or division of the , usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.
  • (military, obsolete) a combined arms major military unit featuring cavalry, infantry, and artillery
  • (military) A large military or semimilitary unit trained for combat; any military force; an army, regiment; an armed, organized and assembled militia.
  • A national organization or association of former servicemen, such as the , founded in 1919.
  • A large number of people; a multitude.
  • (often plural) A great number.
    • Where one sin has entered, legions will force their way through the same breach. — John Rogers (1679-1729) Google Books
  • (dated, taxonomy) A group of orders inferior to a class; in scientific classification, a term occasionally used to express an assemblage of objects intermediate between an order and a class.

    • Synonyms

    * (large number of people) host, mass, multitude, sea, throng

    Meronyms

    * (major unit of the Roman army) cohort, maniple, century

    Coordinate terms

    * (military unit) fireteam, section, troop, squad, platoon, company, battalion, regiment, brigade, division, corps, wing, army, army group * (combined arms) combat team, regimental combat team, brigade combat team

    Related terms

    * legionary * legionnaire

    Quotations

    * 1606 , *: MACDUFF. Not in the legions / Of horrid hell, can come a devil more damn'd / In evils to top Macbeth. * 1611 , *:: *::: And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion : for we are many. *:: *::: Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? * 1708 , , Cyder , Book II, Google Books *: Now we exult, by mighty ANNA's Care / Secure at home, while She to foreign Realms / Sends forth her dreadful Legions , and restrains / The Rage of Kings * 1745 , , Google Books *: What can preserve my life, or what destroy ? / An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; / Legions of angels can't confine me there. * 1821 , , Sardanapalus , Act IV Scene i, Books *: SAR. I fear it not; but I have felt—have seen— / A legion of the dead.

    Anagrams

    * English collective nouns ----

    league

    English

    (wikipedia league)

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) ligg, from (etyl) ligue, from (etyl) lega, from the verb legare, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A group or association of cooperating members.
    • the League of Nations
  • * Denham
    • And let there be / 'Twixt us and them no league , nor amity.
  • An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
    • My favorite sports organizations are the National Football League''' and the American '''League in baseball.
  • (informal) Rugby league.
    • Are you going to watch the league tonight?
    Derived terms
    * bush league * in a league of one's own * in league (with) * major league * minor league * non-league * out of one's league * seven-league boots

    Verb

    (leagu)
  • To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.
    • (South)

    Etymology 2

    From (m), possibly from (etyl).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
  • * M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), p. 47
    • Seven leagues above the mouth of the river we meet with two other passes, as large as the middle one by which we entered.''
  • A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.

    • References

    * Online Etymology, league * Middle English Dictionary, lege