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 (n): a company of companions or supporters
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10 months ago seanahan said:

So to decimate a legion would be to remove a cohort?

10 months ago quotato said:

A legion of Wordies marching through the dictionary.

1422, from L. cohortem, acc. of cohors "enclosure," meaning extended to "infantry company" in Roman army (a tenth part of a legion) through notion of "enclosed group, retinue," from com- "with" + root akin to hortus "garden," from PIE *ghr-ti-, from base *gher- "to grasp, enclose" (see yard (1)). Sense of "accomplice" is first recorded 1952, Amer.Eng.

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