AMERICAN LEGION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American Legion mean? 

• AMERICAN LEGION (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN LEGION has 1 sense:

1. the largest organization of United States war veterans

  Familiarity information: AMERICAN LEGION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMERICAN LEGION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest organization of United States war veterans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("American Legion" is a kind of...):

association (a formal organization of people or groups of people)

Meronyms (members of "American Legion"):

Legionnaire (a member of the American Legion)

ex-serviceman; vet; veteran (a person who has served in the armed forces)

 Context examples 

I got him to join up in the American Legion and he used to stand high there.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

In addition to all these I can remember that Faustina O'Brien came there at least once and the Baedeker girls and young Brewer who had his nose shot off in the war and Mr. Albrucksburger and Miss Haag, his fiancée, and Ardita Fitz-Peters, and Mr. P. Jewett, once head of the American Legion, and Miss Claudia Hip with a man reputed to be her chauffeur, and a prince of something whom we called Duke and whose name, if I ever knew it, I have forgotten.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)