LEGIONARY Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

legionary

noun

Definition of legionary

as in soldier

a person engaged in military service the daring exploits of the French legionaries have long been the stuff of literary and cinematic legend

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civilian

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Recent Examples of legionary The hoard consists of 25 silver denarii in total, equal to the monthly salary of a Roman legionary — or citizen soldier. — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 31 July 2025 Their deployments lack the ideological zeal of the foreign legionaries who flocked to Ukraine in the early months of the war. — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024 In the Thirties, the legionaries, as they were known, had launched pogroms that claimed hundreds of Jewish lives. — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023 According to the Telegraph’s Mike Wright, the fort likely served as a satellite of Isca Dumnoniorum, a military fortification garrisoned by 5,500 legionaries tasked with pacifying the fiercely resisting local populations in the region. — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 27 Sep. 2019 The modern-day version has firms sending out agents to collect debts dressed in a medley of outfits from monks to Roman legionaries. — Bloomberg.com, 14 Feb. 2018

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Noun

The soldiers fired tear gas at the Palestinians, not the settlers, multiple witnesses said.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
The program also aims to make the systems easier for soldiers to operate, potentially allowing units outside traditional air defence formations to employ laser weapons against incoming drones.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026

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Hoskins made a bright-red sport coat his sartorial trademark, often posing with a wood baseball bat and speaking about politics as a series of battles and himself as a conservative warrior.

— Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 15 Oct. 2026
With a roster of A-list session warriors, including drummers Matt Chamberlain and Jay Bellerose, their backing band and orchestra lend a grandeur to the LP that finally matched their aesthetic ambitions and gothic lore.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

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