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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
/ ˈfælæŋks /
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
/ fā′lăngks′ /
, Plural phalanges fə-lăn′jēz
- Any of the small bones of the fingers or toes in humans or the digits of many other vertebrates.
Word History and Origins
Origin of phalanx1
Word History and Origins
Origin of phalanx1
Example Sentences
Vaccines offered Moderna’s CEO, Bancel, a chance to advance a phalanx of new products.
A phalanx of police officers stood at attention on each side of the plaza.
When the surviving phalanx of Massachusetts volunteers arrived at the Capitol building, “they were a tired, dusty, and bedraggled lot of men, showing every evidence of the struggle which they had so recently passed through,” a doorkeeper recalled.
They marched us all — a phalanx of senators, staff and press — through multiple office buildings in search of the safest grounds to shelter on the Capitol complex.
All the confusion finally gave way to a Bowl Championship Series from 1998-2013, in which a phalanx of humans and computers would choose two teams to play in one championship game.
A phalanx of cops formed behind them as they started across.
A phalanx of money-changers runs between the shops, converting Pakistani rupees to Afghan afghanis to U.S. dollars on the fly.
Who can forget the indelible images of that White Bronco being chased by a phalanx of cop cars on June 17, 1994?
I was among more than a hundred protestors from Occupy L.A., and facing a phalanx of police with riot equipment.
Their carefully scripted words, examined beforehand no doubt by a phalanx of spinmeisters, were barely above a monotone.
He took office with the intention of carrying out the king's policy of breaking up the whig phalanx and bringing about a peace.
Again, how could a phalanx mount to the edge of the river bank, when it was precipitous and covered with brushwood?
What portion of the cavalry was it, then, that was on the centre of the phalanx, and was terrified by the elephants?
And what is it that brings disaster on those who employ the phalanx?Why the phalanx fails.
It remains now to compareThe Roman more open order compared with the phalanx.
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