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phalanx
  1. (historical, plural phalanxes) An ancient Greek and Macedonian military unit that consisted of several ranks and files (lines) of soldiers in close array with joined shields and long spears.
  2. (historical sociology) A Fourierite utopian community; a phalanstery.
  3. (plural phalanxes) A large group of people, animals or things, compact or closely massed, or tightly knit and united in common purpose.
  4. (anatomy, plural phalanges) One of the bones of the finger or toe.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “What I saw was a solid phalanx of armed men between myself and a dais supporting a great bench of carved sorapus wood.”
      “When he came out on the street, a phalanx of helmeted police with nightsticks out were marching towards him.”
      “The general snapped his fingers twice, and the soldiers formed up into a dense phalanx.”
phalange
  1. (obsolete) A phalanx (of soldiers, people etc.). [15th-17th c.]
  2. (anatomy) A phalanx. [from 17th c.]
  3. (rare) Alternative form of Falange
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The hierarchy will extend from the unarch, or head of a phalange, to the omniarch, or head of the universe.”
      “The goal is to give anyone with the inkling a chance to pick up a pen or pencil and dip a phalange into a comic collaboration.”
      “According to this interpretation it is the first and only phalange in the first digit.”
phalanstery
  1. An association or community organized on the plan of Charles Fourier, with living space divided hierarchically and higher pay for those carrying out unpopular tasks.
  2. The dwelling house of a Fourierite community.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The phalanstery provided its residents with a harmonious and tightly-knit living arrangement, embodying the principles of communal living.”
      “Nothing could be more unlike the phalanstery of the Cour d'Orlans, or the frank, free comradeship of Nohant.”
      “Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than one meal at the phalanstery.”
phalangite
  1. (obsolete) A soldier belonging to a phalanx.
  2. (historical) Specifically, a pikeman fighting in a Macedonian phalanx, armed with a two-handed pike and using a smaller shield than the hoplite's aspis.
phalansterian
  1. One who favours the system of phalansteries proposed by Charles Fourier.
  2. Examples:
    1. “It was a rich and obliging fellow, although a phalansterian.”
phalansterism
phalangeal
  1. (anatomy) A phalange (bone of a finger or toe)
phalanges
  1. plural of phalange
  2. plural of phalanx
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Let's consider how we might explain the existence in bats of a membrane between their phalanges that enable them to fly.”
      “The first two phalanges of each digit are flattened and expanded, while the last is reduced and bears a nail, not a hoof.”
      “The head of all the phalanges was to be an omniarch, located at Constantinople.”
phalansterians
  1. plural of phalansterian
phalansteries
  1. plural of phalanstery
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Fourier believed a radically egalitarian society could be organized into a confederation of communes or phalansteries.”
phalangites
  1. plural of phalangite
phalangeals
  1. plural of phalangeal
phalanxes
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