Legionary Synonyms

lējə-nĕrē
A soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. legionnaire

Words Related to Legionary

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. vexillation
  2. cavalryman
  3. segontium
  4. garrison
  5. vexillations

Legionary Sentence Examples

  • The emperor returned to Rome and celebrated a triumph (233), but next year he was called to face German invaders in Gaul, where he was slain (on the 18th or 10th of March 235), together with his mother, in a mutiny which was probably led by Maximinus, a Thracian legionary, and at any rate secured him the throne.

  • The legionary fortresses were large rectangular others, principally (it seems) forts built before 150, wood is used freely and only the few principal buildings seem to have been constructed throughout of stone.

  • As Isca Silurum, it was one of the three great legionary fortresses of Roman Britain, established either about A.D.

  • His father began as a common legionary soldier, and fought his way up to the consulship and the governorship of Asia.

  • They were based, like many fascist ranking systems, on the Roman Legionary model, with a main being four men and one leader, a dizaine being two mains, three dizaines forming a trentaine, and so forth.

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