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Synonyms for legionnaires
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : lee-juh-nair |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌli dʒəˈnɛər |
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Définition of legionnaires
Origin :- 1818, from French légionnaire, from légion (see legion). Legionnaires' Disease, caused by Legionella pneumophilia, was named after the lethal outbreak of July 1976 at the American Legion convention in Philadelphia's Bellevue Stratford Hotel. Hence Legionella as the name of the bacterium that causes it.
- As in mercenary : noun person who fights, kills for money
- As in soldier of fortune : noun hired soldier
- The Legionnaires were relieved and another episode was added to their valiant history.
- Extract from : « Gladiator » by Philip Wylie
- If Ibrahim's legionnaires staked out only three armored vehicles at each water hole, they could hold them.
- Extract from : « Border, Breed Nor Birth » by Dallas McCord Reynolds
- Morale was dragging bottom among the legionnaires just a couple of days ago.
- Extract from : « Border, Breed Nor Birth » by Dallas McCord Reynolds
- No hope of fighting for the Legionnaires, save over the frontier in Morocco, or far away in the South!
- Extract from : « A Soldier of the Legion » by C. N. Williamson
- For an instant the huge form lay still, while the ring of Legionnaires remained petrified.
- Extract from : « A Soldier of the Legion » by C. N. Williamson
- To-night they walked together in silence, or speaking seldom, like the other Legionnaires, and listening to the music.
- Extract from : « A Soldier of the Legion » by C. N. Williamson
- He had even drunk too much, once or twice, in the hope of drowning trouble, as Legionnaires do.
- Extract from : « A Soldier of the Legion » by C. N. Williamson
- It was only the Legionnaires who talked little, and in tones almost humbly suppressed.
- Extract from : « A Soldier of the Legion » by C. N. Williamson
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