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
The hoard consists of 25 silver denarii in total, equal to the monthly salary of a Roman legionary — or citizen soldier.
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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
These legionaries would march 20 miles a day with 80 lbs.
—David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 26 Dec. 2018
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
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
These legionaries would march 20 miles a day with 80 lbs.
—David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 26 Dec. 2018
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for legionary
Noun
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Earlier this year, the Israeli military retrieved the body of another soldier who was killed in the 2014 war.—
Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
9 Nov. 2025
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Just off the Gregory House, a trail leads to the Hammock Landing Battery, where Confederate soldiers guarded the river from attack, protecting their manufacturing hub in Columbus, Georgia.—
Carrie Honaker,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Nov. 2025
Noun
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One was Xena, like the warrior-princess of the 1990s TV series.—
Joanna Kakissis,
NPR,
11 Nov. 2025
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The movie tells the story of a dozen elite warriors from around the world who are kidnapped and forced to take part in fight-to-the-death survival games.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Legionary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/legionary. Accessed 27 Nov. 2025.
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