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phalanx
[ fey-langks, fal-angks ]
noun
- (in ancient Greece) a group of heavily armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep, with shields joined and long spears overlapping.
- any body of troops in close array.
- a number of individuals, especially persons united for a common purpose.
- a compact or closely massed body of persons, animals, or things.
- Phalanx, Military. a radar-controlled U.S. Navy 20 mm Gatling-type gun deployed on ships as a last line of defense against antiship cruise missiles.
- (in Fourierism) a group of about 1800 persons, living together and holding their property in common.
- Anatomy, Zoology. any of the bones of the fingers or toes.
verb (used without object)
- Printing. to arrange the distribution of work in a shop as evenly as possible.
phalanx
/ ˈææŋ /
noun
- an ancient Greek and Macedonian battle formation of hoplites presenting long spears from behind a wall of overlapping shields
- any closely ranked unit or mass of people
the police formed a phalanx to protect the embassy
- a number of people united for a common purpose
- (in Fourierism) a group of approximately 1800 persons forming a commune in which all property is collectively owned
- anatomy any of the bones of the fingers or toes phalangeal
- botany
- a bundle of stamens, joined together by their stalks (filaments)
- a form of vegetative spread in which the advance is on a broad front, as in the common reed Compare guerrilla
phalanx
/ ′ăԲ′ /
, Plural phalanges ə-ă′ŧ
- Any of the small bones of the fingers or toes in humans or the digits of many other vertebrates.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of phalanx1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of phalanx1
Example Sentences
With their heavy eyebrows and square jaws, they look like a fretful phalanx of Martin Scorseses reluctantly conceding that the movie is pretty fun.
He stood next to Saelee-McCain’s sisters on his left and a phalanx of FBI agents and Shasta County Sheriff’s Office deputies on his right.
Imagine a helmeted phalanx of Thracian soldiers advancing on an enemy.
On her drive up Lincoln Avenue, she had stopped and pulled over just before a security checkpoint where a phalanx of rifle-toting National Guard troops were checking the IDs of passing motorists.
“General Otis” borrowed from military vocabulary to call his L.A. mansion “the Bivouac” and his Times staff “the phalanx” as he built, and lorded over, a new Southland.
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