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Antonyms for phalanxes

Grammar : Noun
Spell : fey-langks, fal-angks
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfeɪ læŋks, ˈfæl æŋks

Definition of phalanxes

Origin :
  • 1550s, "line of battle in close ranks," from Latin phalanx "compact body of heavily armed men in battle array," or directly from Greek phalanx (genitive phalangos) "line of battle, battle array," also "finger or toe bone," originally "round piece of wood, trunk, log," of unknown origin. Perhaps from PIE root *bhelg- "plank, beam" (cf. Old English balca "balk;" see balk (n.)). The Macedonian phalanx consisted of 50 close files of 16 men each. In anatomy, originally the whole row of finger joints, which fit together like infantry in close order. Figurative sense of "number of persons banded together in a common cause" is attested from 1600 (cf. Spanish Falangist, member of a fascist organization founded in 1933).
  • As in legion : noun mass, force of people
  • As in toe : noun foot part
Example sentences :
  • What that gentleman, and the associations, or some parts of their phalanxes, think proper.
  • Extract from : « Thoughts on the Present Discontents » by Edmund Burke
  • Republican phalanxes, Soldiers of Liberty, only, could have endured all this.
  • Extract from : « Military Career of Napoleon the Great » by Montgomery B. Gibbs
  • "Phalanxes of Atlans" promises to be an excellent story, also.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories, May, 1931 » by Various
  • There, the phalanxes of Alexander might raise altars to Zeus.
  • Extract from : « The Lords of the Ghostland » by Edgar Saltus
  • As for "Phalanxes of Atlans," well, I simply can't get interested in it.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories, June, 1931 » by Various
  • The Wisconsin had the advantage of most other Phalanxes in the skill of its spokesman.
  • Extract from : « History of American Socialisms » by John Humphrey Noyes
  • The spirits of that earth go about by companies and phalanxes, and when assembled together they form as it were a globe.
  • Extract from : « Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There » by Emanuel Swedenborg
  • The Communities and Phalanxes died almost as soon as they were born, and are now almost forgotten.
  • Extract from : « History of American Socialisms » by John Humphrey Noyes
  • Human nature, as we have seen it in the Communities and Phalanxes—discordant, centrifugal—is the same in marriage.
  • Extract from : « History of American Socialisms » by John Humphrey Noyes
  • She thinks she has had enough of the grey winter-withered grass, and, lo, the phalanxes of minute green spears charge and rout it.
  • Extract from : « Up and Down » by Edward Frederic Benson

Synonyms for phalanxes

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