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Legion is a related term of assembly.


As a noun legion

is legion.

As a proper noun assembly is

(us) the lower legislative body of each of a number of states of the united states, ("the assembly").

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

    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 ----

    assembly

    English

    Noun

    (Freedom of assembly) (assemblies)
  • A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.
  • ''In order to change the bearing, you must first remove the gearbox assembly .
  • The act of putting together such set of pieces.
  • ''instructions for assembly
    assembly line
  • A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
  • school assembly
    freedom of assembly
  • *
  • They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
  • A legislative body.
  • the of the United Nations
  • (military) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
  • (computing)
  • (computing) In Microsoft .NET, a building block of an application, similar to a DLL, but containing both executable code and information normally found in a DLL's type library. The type library information in an assembly, called a manifest, describes public functions, data, classes, and version information.
  • Synonyms

    * (congregation of people) foregathering