foreign legion

1. 1.

   a military unit composed of foreign volunteers who serve the state

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   NarrowerFrench Foreign Legion

Questions about foreign legion

What does foreign legion mean?

foreign legion means "a military unit composed of foreign volunteers who serve the state".

Is foreign legion a common word?

foreign legion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.