LEGIONNAIRE Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

legionnaire

noun

ˌlē-jə-ˈner

Definition of legionnaire

as in soldier

a person engaged in military service the legionnaires are well respected for their fighting prowess

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civilian

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Recent Examples of legionnaire The deadly legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Harlem continues to spread, forcing residents to be hyper-vigilant and on the look-out for the flu-like symptoms associated with the illness. — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2025 From Roman legionnaires to Napoleon’s troops, many armies have occupied Aragonese over the years. — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 10 June 2025 Another suggests the cache could be war spoils of Czechoslovak legionnaires. — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 20 May 2025 The second, that it was named after a maiden who showed some weary legionnaires the way to the mountain spring. — Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for legionnaire

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Noun

This is my personal version of those videos of soldiers coming home from war, and the other women react as such.

— Tom Smyth, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2026
An older man was carefully helped off one helicopter, while a soldier carried an older woman on his back to a medical tent.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2026

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Noun

The army Mladic created to fight in Bosnia was a model of ruthlessness, daring and brutality in the Serb warrior tradition, once prized in the life-or-death partisan struggle against the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia in World War Two.

— Ivana Sekularac, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
As a warrior for kindness and a defender of hope, may Parton’s legacy never leave us.

— Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of warrior

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