phalanx.
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.
Meaning & usage
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.
A large group of people, animals or things, compact or closely massed, or tightly knit and united in common purpose.
A Fourierite utopian community; a phalanstery.
One of the bones of the finger or toe.
A bundle of stamens, in diadelphous and polyadelphous flowers.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin phalanx or Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx, “battle order; array”). Doublet of phalange, planch, plancha, planche, and plank.
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