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What does legion mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word legion? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Numerous; vast; very great in number
Noun
  1. (Ancient Rome) The major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.
  2. (military, obsolete) a combined arms major military unit featuring cavalry, infantry, and artillery
  3. (military) A large military or semimilitary unit trained for combat; any military force; an army, regiment; an armed, organized and assembled militia.
  4. (often Legion or the Legion) A national organization or association of former servicemen, such as the American Legion, founded in 1919.
  5. A large number of people; a multitude.
  6. (often plural) A great number.
  7. (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.
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