phalanx

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈfælæŋks/|/fəˈlæŋks/    美 /ˈfælæŋks/|/fəˈlæŋks/|/ˈfeɪˌlæŋks/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. historical
  2. A large group of people, animals or things, compact or closely massed, or tightly knit and united in common purpose.
    — The monarch hath gone, but his rocky throne Still rests on its frowning base; Its motionless guards rise in phalanx lone, And nought save the winds through their helmets that moan, And none but those bosoms and hearts of stone Sigh o'er a fallen race.
  3. A Fourierite utopian community; a phalanstery. historical
    — [Charles Fourier] calculated that if precisely 1,620 men, women and children were collected in a 6,000-acre phalanx, they would — all by merrily following their individual passions — end up satisfying all the phalanx’s essential needs.
  4. One of the bones of the finger or toe.
  5. A bundle of stamens, in diadelphous and polyadelphous flowers.

词形变化

phalanxes plural phalanges formal,literary,plural phalanges plural phalanxes archaic,plural,proscribed

词汇关系

衍生词
distal phalanx intermediate phalanx interphalanx mesophalanx middle phalanx proximal phalanx
相关词
phalangal phalangeal phalangite

词源

Borrowed from Latin phalanx or Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx, “battle order; array”). Doublet of phalange, planch, plancha, planche, and plank.
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