Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A self-sustaining cooperative community of the followers of Fourierism. Also called phalanx.
- n. The buildings in such a community.
- n. An association resembling a Fourierist phalanstery.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The building or buildings occupied as a dwelling by a community living together and having goods and property in common as proposed by Fourier. See Fourierism.
- n. A communal house of a primitive tribe.
Wiktionary
- n. An association or community organized on the plan of Charles Fourier, with living space divided hierarchically and higher pay for those carrying out unpopular tasks.
- n. The dwelling house of a Fourierite community.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An association or community organized on the plan of Fourier. See Fourierism.
- n. The dwelling house of a Fourierite community.
Etymologies
- French phalanstère : phalange, phalanx (from Latin phalanx, phalang-; see phalanx) + (mona)stère, monastery (from Late Latin monastērium; see monastery). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A phalanstery, which is in fact nothing but an immense hotel, can please some, and even all at a certain period of their life, but the great mass prefers family life (family life of the future, be it understood).”
“Sometimes a phalanstery is a necessity, but it would be hateful, were it the general rule.”
“phalanstery" -- five hundred or a thousand people living in one great palace, built in the form of a hollow square.”
“It is a kind of phalanstery which amuses us, and where mutual liberty is much better guaranteed than in that of the Fourierists ...”
“a fire which destroyed its nearly completed "phalanstery" brought losses which caused, or certainly gave the final ostensible reason for, its dissolution.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
“phalanstery" as the solution of human troubles, and it comes to me that he must have met or in other words heard of M.”
“It is with the phalanstery one that was held the 1st Labour Day, 1st Sunday of May 1867, twenty years before Chicago, IT, the United States of America.”
“Company of phalanstery of Own way the phalanstery one is a self-sufficing city.”
“We are far from Islamberg, in the heart of the Catskills, that fundamentalist phalanstery I discovered during my investigation into the death of Daniel Pearl, where the terrorist ideologue Ali Shah Gilani is venerated.”
“A biting satire of the Soviet Union, the book tells the story of a group of farm animals who declare war on mankind, rebel against their master, and establish a phalanstery in which all animals would be equal.”
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