Vocabulary
Legion
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
a division of 3,000–6,000 men including a complement of cavalry,
Urdu meaning
جم غفیر، بڑی تعداد میں
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Takshashila and Nalanda are legendary students came from afar to study, the number of luminaries produced was legion, and seminal ideas were disseminated far and wide.
- He repeated this to Rachel Accurso, known as Ms Rachel to her legion of fans, as it turns out, children and adults.
- Women writers in South Asia are legion.
- The minerals bill in the KP Assembly has turned into a similar lightning rod around which the discontents of this system and they are legion have been mobilised.
- Azzam Pasha, a top Arab League official, put this question to Sir John Bagot Glubb (Glubb Pasha), Commander of Transjordan`s Arab Legion.
Synonyms
brigade, regiment, battalion, company, troop
Antonyms
countable, limited
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