legionary

Questions about legionary

What does legionary mean?

legionary means "a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion)".

How many syllables are in legionary?

legionary has 5 syllables and divides as le-gi-o-na-ry under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for legionary?

Close synonyms include legionnaire. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is legionary a common word?

legionary 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.