Phalanx is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PHALANX in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a formation of infantry in ancient Greece
• a bone of the finger
• a body of troops or police officers standing or moving in close formation
• a group of people or things of a similar type forming a compact body
• (in ancient Greece) a body of Macedonian infantry drawn up in close order with shields touching and long spears overlapping.
• a bone of the finger or toe.
• closely grouped mass of people
• 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.
• Any body of troops or men formed in close array, or any combination of people distinguished for firmness and solidity of a union.
• A Fourierite community; a phalanstery.
• One of the digital bones of the hand or foot, beyond the metacarpus or metatarsus; an internode.
• A group or bundle of stamens, as in polyadelphous flowers.
• any of the bones of the fingers or toes
• any closely ranked crowd of people
• a body of troops in close array

Words related to PHALANX

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Words that contain PHALANX

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How to use PHALANX in a sentence

• The celebrated Macedonian phalanx formed the main strength of his infantry.
• And thus the phalanx presented a ponderous and bristling mass, which, as long as its order was kept compact, was sure to bear down all opposition.
• He observed that his cavalry were inclined to give way, and therefore sent for his phalanx, and arrayed it against the enemy.
• Unable to break the ranks of the Norwegian phalanx by force, Harold at length tempted them to quit their close order by a pretended flight.
• There were found very many of our soldiers who leaped upon the phalanx, and with their hands tore away the shields, and wounded the enemy from above.
• In the space between the two divisions were placed 54 elephants, distributed between the bands of the phalanx and of the heavy cavalry.
• The phalanx nevertheless retired slowly and in good order, till the elephants stationed in the interstices became frightened and broke the ranks.
• The Spartan phalanx was stronger in defence, the Athenian more agile in attack.
• All are ranged on one side, and it is a phalanx as formidable, in point of moral force, as the twenty-four can produce.
• Then the phalanx advanced on both sides, and they sounded their trumpets.
• He dismounted his horsemen, and formed his whole force in solid phalanx.
• Against these the Macedonian phalanx was brought up in front, while the cavalry made repeated charges on either flank with overwhelming effect.
• Let us judge of Greek and Roman war from the Phalanx and the Legion, and not from the suttlers of the two camps.
• Thus equipped, they usually advanced slowly and steadily into action in a uniform phalanx of about eight spears deep.
• By whom was the legion substituted for the phalanx? 8.
• But as it was, they made a phalanx in a circle about the whole house and especially at the doors, and all took their stand there.
• On the Persian right wing not fewer than three thousand perished in this action, while the rest escaped with difficulty to the phalanx and were saved.
• Towards the close of the last Congress, however, it had been hoped that their ties began to loosen, and their phalanx to separate a little.
• But the main object was obtained, the phalanx of the Treasury was reinforced by additional recruits.
• Agassiz stood aloof, clinging to his early Swiss parsonage teachings, and the Theological Department marched in solid phalanx and scoffed and scorned.
• Singer had the girls of the town organized into a Roman phalanx before spring.
• The great political party in opposition to the administration was now arrayed in solid phalanx against the war itself on whose prosecution the existence of the Nation depended.
• Within that dense, matted shrubbery, and behind that phalanx of trees, the imagination of the traveler sees all manner of four-footed beasts and creeping things.
• As for the ministerial phalanx, he observed, he held them in the greatest contempt.
• A huge crowd was entering its doors and taking possession of the phalanx of chairs occupying the floor of the building.
• The man who seemed to be the captain of the patrol smiled somewhat grimly when he saw himself confronted by this phalanx of gentlemanly weapons.
• He likewise sent up the cohorts in strong bodies one after another, to force their way, if possible, through the wedge of the Macedonians, which is called a phalanx.

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