Synonyms of legionary

legionary

noun

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• soldier
• warrior
• fighter
• marine
• legionnaire
• trooper
• raider
• veteran
• dragoon
• ranger
• serviceman
• man-at-arms
• knight
• recruit
• Confederate
• dogface
• regular
• cavalryman
• infantryman
• partisan
• musketeer
• conscript
• combatant
• Continental
• artilleryman
• rifleman
• guardsman
• cavalier
• archer
• guerrilla
• doughboy
• paramilitary
• cuirassier
• foot soldier
• cannoneer
• GI
• commando
• irregular
• militiaman
• spearman
• lancer
• Federal
• footman
• grunt
• gunner
• jarhead
• servicewoman
• pikeman
• reservist
• crossbowman
• warhorse
• champion
• carabineer
• draftee
• enrollee
• mortarman
• minuteman
• gendarme
• counterguerrilla
• noncombatant
• lifer
• digger
• gallowglass

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• civilian

Example Sentences

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