Legionary is an English word with synonyms like legionnaire or soldier. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Legionary in a sentence
Legionary meaning
- A soldier belonging to a legion; a professional soldier of the ancient Roman army.
- A person who is neither a citizen nor colonial/imperial subject of the state whose military they join.
- A member of a legion, such as the American Legion, or of any organization containing the term legion in its title (e.g. the French Foreign Legion).
Synonyms of Legionary
Using Legionary
- The main meaning on this page is: A soldier belonging to a legion; a professional soldier of the ancient Roman army. | A person who is neither a citizen nor colonial/imperial subject of the state whose military they join. | A member of a legion, such as the American Legion, or of any organization containing the term legion in its title (e.g. the French Foreign Legion).
- Useful related words include: legionnaire, soldier.
- In the example corpus, legionary often appears in combinations such as: of legionary, legionary infantry.
Context around Legionary
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 5 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Legionary
- In this selection, "legionary" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, national, heavy, large, infantry, cohort and eagles stand out and add context to how "legionary" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a large legionary camp called and castra legionaria legionary fortresses. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "legionary" sits close to words such as aami, abada and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with legionary
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
They were also allocated to static bases with permanent castra legionaria (legionary fortresses). (13 words)
To make this easier, he issued each legionary a cross stick to carry their loads on their shoulders. (18 words)
Within forty-eight hours of a Legionary movement victory, Romania will have an alliance with Rome and Berlin". (18 words)
Germanicus' own campaigns in Germania made him famous after avenging the defeat at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest and retrieving two of the three legionary eagles that had been lost during the battle. (34 words)
Gabba, Republican Rome, The Army And the Allies, p. 1 The distinction between the three heavy infantry classes, which had already become blurred, had collapsed into a single class of heavy legionary infantry. (33 words)
The fans of the Senators are known as the Sens Army. citation Like most hockey fanatics, they are known to dress up for games; some in Roman legionary clothing. (29 words)
Example sentences (13)
At that time this military tribune was usually the commander of a legionary cohort or an ala of auxiliary cavalry.
Deletant, p.51 During the National Legionary State period, earlier antisemitic legislation was upheld and strengthened, while the " Romanianization " of Jewish-owned enterprises became standard official practice.
For the most part, Roman cavalry during the Republic functioned as an adjunct to the legionary infantry and formed only one-fifth of the showing force.
Gabba, Republican Rome, The Army And the Allies, p. 1 The distinction between the three heavy infantry classes, which had already become blurred, had collapsed into a single class of heavy legionary infantry.
Germanicus' own campaigns in Germania made him famous after avenging the defeat at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest and retrieving two of the three legionary eagles that had been lost during the battle.
He also invaded Vectis (now the Isle of Wight ), finally setting up a fortress and legionary headquarters at Isca Dumnoniorum ( Exeter ).
The area was maintained by the Roman military, which maintained a large legionary camp called Brigantium (Austria) near Lake Constance and at Magia (Swiss).
The fans of the Senators are known as the Sens Army. citation Like most hockey fanatics, they are known to dress up for games; some in Roman legionary clothing.
There was corruption among the officers: Victorinus had to ask for the resignation of a legionary legate who was taking bribes.
They were also allocated to static bases with permanent castra legionaria (legionary fortresses).
To make this easier, he issued each legionary a cross stick to carry their loads on their shoulders.
To this wage, a legionary on active campaign would hope to add the booty of war, from the bodies of their enemies and as plunder from enemy settlements.
Within forty-eight hours of a Legionary movement victory, Romania will have an alliance with Rome and Berlin".
Common combinations with legionary
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of legionary 3×
- legionary infantry 2×