In the US context, a member of the American Legion, the veterans' organisation founded in 1919. The capitalised Legionnaire specifically refers to this membership rather than to soldiers of the Roman legions or the French Foreign Legion, though all senses derive from the same Latin root. The American Legion context is common in small-town American culture.
His grandfather was a proud Legionnaire, never missing the annual convention.
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(US, military) A member of the American Legion.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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