Word
Phalanx
How many syllables?
2 Syllables
How it's divided?
phal-anx
Definition
- n. - 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.
- n. - Any body of troops or men formed in close array, or any
combination of people distinguished for firmness and solidity of a
union.
- n. - A Fourierite community; a phalanstery.
- n. - One of the digital bones of the hand or foot, beyond the
metacarpus or metatarsus; an internode.
- n. - A group or bundle of stamens, as in polyadelphous flowers.
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