Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A compact or close-knit body of people.
- noun A formation of infantry carrying overlapping shields and long spears, developed by Philip II of Macedon and used by Alexander the Great.
- noun Anatomy A bone of a finger or toe.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In entomology, any one of the joints of the tarsus.
- noun In Gr. antiquity, in general, the whole of the heavy-armed infantry of an army; particularly, a single grand division of that class of troops when formed in ranks and files close and deep, with their shields joined and long spears overlapping one another so as to present a firm and serried front to a foe.
- noun Any body of troops or men formed in close array, or any combination of people distinguished for firmness and solidity of union.
- noun In Fourier's plan for the reorganization of society, a group of persons, numbering about 1, 800, living together and holding their property in common. See
Fourierism . - noun In anatomy and zoology:
- noun A row or series of bones in the fingers or toes.
- noun One of the bones of the fingers or toes; a digital internode, succeeding the metacarpal or metatarsal bones, collectively constituting the skeleton of the third and distal segment of the hand or foot: so called from their regular disposition in several rows.
- noun One of the fiddle-shaped cells of the lamina reticularis of the Cortian organ. Also called
Deiters's phalanges . - noun In zoology, a group or series of animals, of indeterminate classificatory value; one of several groups which may be interposed above genera and below classes or orders.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gr. Antiq.) A body of heavy-armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep. There were several different arrangements, the phalanx varying in depth from four to twenty-five or more ranks of men.
- noun Any body of troops or men formed in close array, or any combination of people distinguished for firmness and solidity of a union.
- noun A Fourierite community; a phalanstery.
- noun (Anat.) One of the digital bones of the hand or foot, beyond the metacarpus or metatarsus; an internode.
- noun (Bot.) A group or bundle of stamens, as in polyadelphous flowers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a large group of people, animals or things, compact or closely massed, or tightly knit and united in common purpose.
- noun anatomy One of the
bones of thefinger ortoe . - noun historical An ancient
Greek andMacedonian military unit that consisted of severalranks andfiles (lines) of soldiers in closearray with joined shields and long spears. - noun A
Fourierite utopian community; aphalanstery .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a body of troops in close array
- noun any of the bones of the fingers or toes
- noun any closely ranked crowd of people
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He made preparations for an expedition to the Pass of the Caspian mountains, forming a new legion out of his late levies in Italy, of men all six feet high, which he called the phalanx of Alexander the Great.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome Various 1887
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[581]; forming a new legion out of his late levies in Italy, of men all six feet high, which he called the phalanx of Alexander the Great.
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.
Thomas Steinbeck: John Steinbeck, Michael Moore, and the Burgeoning Role of Planetary Patriotism Thomas Steinbeck 2010
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My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.
Thomas Steinbeck: John Steinbeck, Michael Moore, and the Burgeoning Role of Planetary Patriotism Thomas Steinbeck 2010
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My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.
Thomas Steinbeck: John Steinbeck, Michael Moore, and the Burgeoning Role of Planetary Patriotism Thomas Steinbeck 2010
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My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.
Thomas Steinbeck: John Steinbeck, Michael Moore, and the Burgeoning Role of Planetary Patriotism Thomas Steinbeck 2010
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My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.
Thomas Steinbeck: John Steinbeck, Michael Moore, and the Burgeoning Role of Planetary Patriotism Thomas Steinbeck 2010
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My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.
Thomas Steinbeck: John Steinbeck, Michael Moore, and the Burgeoning Role of Planetary Patriotism Thomas Steinbeck 2010
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Coming down the pier were royal thranites, holding their polished and gleaming oars aloft while they marched in phalanx step down to the gangplank.
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My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.
Thomas Steinbeck: John Steinbeck, Michael Moore, and the Burgeoning Role of Planetary Patriotism Thomas Steinbeck 2010
chained_bear commented on the word phalanx
Mollusque? A monovocalic for you?
October 9, 2008
mollusque commented on the word phalanx
Only two vowels, but phalangar works. Thanks, c_b!
October 9, 2008