See legionary in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for legionary meaning in English (8.6kB)
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "legionary ant"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "legion",
"3": "ary"
},
"expansion": "legion + -ary",
"name": "suffix"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "legiōnārius"
},
"expansion": "Latin legiōnārius",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "legionnaire"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of legionnaire",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "legion + -ary. From Latin legiōnārius. Doublet of legionnaire.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "legionaries",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "legionary (plural legionaries)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Ancient Rome",
"orig": "en:Ancient Rome",
"parents": [
"Ancient Africa",
"Ancient Europe",
"Ancient history",
"Ancient Near East",
"History of Italy",
"History of Africa",
"History of Europe",
"History",
"Ancient Asia",
"Italy",
"Africa",
"Europe",
"All topics",
"History of Asia",
"Earth",
"Eurasia",
"Fundamental",
"Asia",
"Nature"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Military",
"orig": "en:Military",
"parents": [
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "32 7 12 14 35",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ary",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"coordinate_terms": [
{
"_dis1": "76 3 21",
"sense": "soldier of the Ancient Roman legion",
"word": "centurion"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 425",
"text": "Suddenly, [...] he saw all this as romantic — the last legionary, his aloneness, the lost cause really lost — and instinctively he pulled in his paunch, stroked down his hair to cover the naked part of the scalp, and wiped the sweat off his cheeks.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A soldier belonging to a legion; a professional soldier of the ancient Roman army."
],
"holonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "76 3 21",
"sense": "soldier of the Ancient Roman legion",
"word": "contubernium"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 3 21",
"sense": "soldier of the Ancient Roman legion",
"word": "maniple"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 3 21",
"sense": "soldier of the Ancient Roman legion",
"word": "century"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 3 21",
"sense": "soldier of the Ancient Roman legion",
"word": "legion"
}
],
"id": "en-legionary-en-noun-LfsZx3Xw",
"links": [
[
"military",
"military"
],
[
"Ancient Rome",
"Ancient Rome"
],
[
"legion",
"legion"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(military, Ancient Rome) A soldier belonging to a legion; a professional soldier of the ancient Roman army."
],
"tags": [
"Ancient-Rome"
],
"topics": [
"government",
"military",
"politics",
"war"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "32 7 12 14 35",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ary",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A person who is neither a citizen nor colonial/imperial subject of the state whose military they join."
],
"id": "en-legionary-en-noun--7ObWOo0"
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "32 7 12 14 35",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ary",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"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)."
],
"id": "en-legionary-en-noun-w3HmW~-t",
"links": [
[
"legion",
"legion"
],
[
"e.g.",
"e.g."
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "28 4 68",
"sense": "member of a Legion organisation",
"word": "legionnaire"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "34 3 64",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "legioner",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "легионер"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 3 64",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"word": "軍團士兵"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 3 64",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jūntuán shìbīng",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"word": "军团士兵"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 3 64",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "legionář"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 3 64",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "legionær"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 3 64",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"word": "legionair"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 3 64",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"singular"
],
"word": "legiano"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 3 64",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"word": "legioonalainen"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 3 64",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "légionnaire"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 3 64",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lexionario"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 3 64",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Legionär"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 3 64",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "legeonários",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "λεγεωνάριος"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 3 64",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"word": "légionista"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 3 64",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"word": "légiós"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 3 64",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "legionario"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 3 64",
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "legioner",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"word": "легионер"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 3 64",
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "legion jauyñerı",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"word": "легион жауынгері"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 3 64",
"code": "kk",
"english": "legion sarbazy",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"word": "легион сарбазы"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 3 64",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "légionnaithe"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 3 64",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "legionista"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 3 64",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "legionário"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 3 64",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "legionér",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "легионе́р"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 3 64",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "legionario"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 3 64",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"word": "legionär"
},
{
"_dis1": "34 3 64",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "lehionér",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "легіоне́р"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈlidʒəˌnɛɹi/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliːdʒənəɹi/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliːdʒənɹi/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"legionary"
],
"word": "legionary"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "legion",
"3": "ary"
},
"expansion": "legion + -ary",
"name": "suffix"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "legiōnārius"
},
"expansion": "Latin legiōnārius",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "legionnaire"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of legionnaire",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "legion + -ary. From Latin legiōnārius. Doublet of legionnaire.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "legionary (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "41 2 9 16 32",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "32 7 12 14 35",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ary",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "a legionary force"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Relating to, or consisting of, a legion or legions."
],
"id": "en-legionary-en-adj-Joo8bweo",
"links": [
[
"legion",
"legion"
]
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica (aka, Vulgar Errours), Google Books\nUnto whom (what is deplorable in men and Christians) too many applying themselves, betwixt jest and earnest, betray the cause of truth, and insensibly make up the legionary body of error."
}
],
"glosses": [
"Containing a great number."
],
"id": "en-legionary-en-adj-KOOB7RnC",
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈlidʒəˌnɛɹi/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliːdʒənəɹi/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliːdʒənɹi/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"legionary"
],
"word": "legionary"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 3-syllable words",
"English 4-syllable words",
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English doublets",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms suffixed with -ary",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English uncomparable adjectives"
],
"coordinate_terms": [
{
"sense": "soldier of the Ancient Roman legion",
"word": "centurion"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "legionary ant"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "legion",
"3": "ary"
},
"expansion": "legion + -ary",
"name": "suffix"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "legiōnārius"
},
"expansion": "Latin legiōnārius",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "legionnaire"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of legionnaire",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "legion + -ary. From Latin legiōnārius. Doublet of legionnaire.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "legionaries",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "legionary (plural legionaries)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"holonyms": [
{
"sense": "soldier of the Ancient Roman legion",
"word": "contubernium"
},
{
"sense": "soldier of the Ancient Roman legion",
"word": "maniple"
},
{
"sense": "soldier of the Ancient Roman legion",
"word": "century"
},
{
"sense": "soldier of the Ancient Roman legion",
"word": "legion"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Ancient Rome",
"en:Military"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 425",
"text": "Suddenly, [...] he saw all this as romantic — the last legionary, his aloneness, the lost cause really lost — and instinctively he pulled in his paunch, stroked down his hair to cover the naked part of the scalp, and wiped the sweat off his cheeks.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A soldier belonging to a legion; a professional soldier of the ancient Roman army."
],
"links": [
[
"military",
"military"
],
[
"Ancient Rome",
"Ancient Rome"
],
[
"legion",
"legion"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(military, Ancient Rome) A soldier belonging to a legion; a professional soldier of the ancient Roman army."
],
"tags": [
"Ancient-Rome"
],
"topics": [
"government",
"military",
"politics",
"war"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A person who is neither a citizen nor colonial/imperial subject of the state whose military they join."
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"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)."
],
"links": [
[
"legion",
"legion"
],
[
"e.g.",
"e.g."
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈlidʒəˌnɛɹi/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliːdʒənəɹi/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliːdʒənɹi/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "member of a Legion organisation",
"word": "legionnaire"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "legioner",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "легионер"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"word": "軍團士兵"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jūntuán shìbīng",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"word": "军团士兵"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "legionář"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "legionær"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"word": "legionair"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"singular"
],
"word": "legiano"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"word": "legioonalainen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "légionnaire"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lexionario"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Legionär"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "legeonários",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "λεγεωνάριος"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"word": "légionista"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"word": "légiós"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "legionario"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "legioner",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"word": "легионер"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "legion jauyñerı",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"word": "легион жауынгері"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"english": "legion sarbazy",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"word": "легион сарбазы"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "légionnaithe"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "legionista"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "legionário"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "legionér",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "легионе́р"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "legionario"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"word": "legionär"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "lehionér",
"sense": "member of a legion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "легіоне́р"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"legionary"
],
"word": "legionary"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 3-syllable words",
"English 4-syllable words",
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English doublets",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms suffixed with -ary",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English uncomparable adjectives"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "legion",
"3": "ary"
},
"expansion": "legion + -ary",
"name": "suffix"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "legiōnārius"
},
"expansion": "Latin legiōnārius",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "legionnaire"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of legionnaire",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "legion + -ary. From Latin legiōnārius. Doublet of legionnaire.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "legionary (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "a legionary force"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Relating to, or consisting of, a legion or legions."
],
"links": [
[
"legion",
"legion"
]
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica (aka, Vulgar Errours), Google Books\nUnto whom (what is deplorable in men and Christians) too many applying themselves, betwixt jest and earnest, betray the cause of truth, and insensibly make up the legionary body of error."
}
],
"glosses": [
"Containing a great number."
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈlidʒəˌnɛɹi/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliːdʒənəɹi/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliːdʒənɹi/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"legionary"
],
"word": "legionary"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.