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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Recent Examples of legionary 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 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 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 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 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

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Noun

All the gold is gone, and there’s barely enough to pay her soldiers, let alone throw a lavish coronation.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
Thirty-two Cuban soldiers working security for Maduro were killed in the raid.

— Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 6 July 2026

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Noun

That is why the churches call men and women who take to their knees as prayer warriors.

— Lauren Green, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026
By then Tanacharison is telling Washington that he is mystically protected, in the mode of certain Indigenous warriors who were placed on earth to be leaders.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 July 2026

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