The difference between Division and Legion

When used as nouns, division means the act or process of dividing anything, whereas legion means the major unit or division of the roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.

Legion is also verb with the meaning: to form into legions.

Legion is also adjective with the meaning: numerous.

check bellow for the other definitions of Division and Legion

  1. Division as a noun (uncountable):

    The act or process of dividing anything.

  2. Division as a noun:

    Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.

  3. Division as a noun (arithmetic, uncountable):

    The process of dividing a number by another.

  4. Division as a noun (arithmetic):

    A calculation that involves this process.

    Examples:

    "I've got ten divisions to do for my homework."

  5. Division as a noun (military):

    A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.

  6. Division as a noun:

    A section of a large company.

  7. Division as a noun (taxonomy):

    A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.

    Examples:

    "Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta."

  8. Division as a noun:

    A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.

  9. Division as a noun (government):

    A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.

    Examples:

    "The House of Commons has voted to approve the third reading of the bill without a division. The bill will now progress to the House of Lords."

  10. Division as a noun (music):

    A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.

  11. Division as a noun (music):

    A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.

  12. Division as a noun (legal):

    A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.

  13. Division as a noun (computing):

    Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code

  14. Division as a noun (UK, Eton College):

    A lesson; a class.

  1. Legion as an adjective:

    Numerous; vast; very great in number

    Examples:

    "Russia’s labor and capital resources are woefully inadequate to overcome the state’s needs and vulnerabilities, which are legion."

    "synonyms: multitudinous numerous"

  1. Legion as a noun (military, Ancient Rome):

    The major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.

  2. Legion as a noun (military, obsolete):

    a combined arms major military unit featuring cavalry, infantry, and artillery

  3. Legion as a noun (military):

    A large military or semi-military unit trained for combat; any military force; an army, regiment; an armed, organized and assembled militia.

  4. Legion as a noun (often '''Legion''' or '''the Legion'''):

    A national organization or association of former servicemen, such as the .

  5. Legion as a noun:

    A large number of people; a multitude.

  6. Legion as a noun (often plural):

    A great number.

  7. Legion as a noun (dated, taxonomy):

    A group of orders inferior to a class; in scientific classification, a term occasionally used to express an assemblage of objects intermediate between an order and a class.

  1. Legion as a verb (transitive):

    To form into legions.

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