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legionaries

noun

plural of legionary
as in soldiers
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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  1. soldiers
  2. warriors
Noun
  • The suspects who remained in Haiti awaiting trial included 17 Colombian soldiers and Joseph Badio, a former Haiti Ministry of Justice employee who was part of an anti-corruption unit.
    — EVENS SANON, Arkansas Online, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Quiñones did not identify the suspects, but those who remain in Haiti awaiting trial include more than a dozen Colombian soldiers and a former Haitian government official.
    — Evens Sanon, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of soldiers
Noun
  • This was about a hundred uniformed men and a few uniformed women, trained to be stoic warriors.
    — Mabel Yiu, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Here the focus was not nationalism but a spiritual discipline that supposedly allowed warriors to accept death with equanimity.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of warriors
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“Legionaries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/legionaries. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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