Le·gion n.
 1. Rom. Antiq. A body of foot soldiers and cavalry consisting of different numbers at different periods, -- from about four thousand to about six thousand men, -- the cavalry being about one tenth.
 2. A military force; an army; military bands.
 3. A great number; a multitude.
    Where one sin has entered, legions will force their way through the same breach.   --Rogers.
 4. Taxonomy A group of orders inferior to a class.
 Legion of honor, an order instituted by the French government in 1802, when Bonaparte was First Consul, as a reward for merit, both civil and military.

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