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Legion vs Squad - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between legion and squad

is that legion is legion while squad is a group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members.

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

    Related terms

    * legionary * legionnaire

    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 ----

    squad

    English

    (wikipedia squad)

    Alternative forms

    * escouade (archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members.
  • A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members.
  • * 1912 , in The New England magazine , volume 47:
    • A squad of soldiers ordered them to disperse but instead of doing so they commenced throwing ice and rocks.
  • (cricket, soccer, rugby) A group of potential players from whom a starting team and substitutes are chosen.
  • (UK, dialect) sloppy mud
    • (Tennyson)

    Derived terms

    * flying squad

    Related terms

    * squadron

    See also

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    Anagrams

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