"phalanx" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈfeɪ.ˌlæŋks/, /ˈfæ.ˌlæŋks/ Audio: en-us-phalanx.ogg [US], en-au-phalanx.ogg [Australia] Forms: phalanxes [plural], phalanges [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin phalanx or Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx, “battle order, array”). Doublet of phalange and plank. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|phalanx}} Latin phalanx, {{bor|en|grc|φάλαγξ||battle order, array}} Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx, “battle order, array”), {{doublet|en|phalange|plank}} Doublet of phalange and plank Head templates: {{en-noun|+|phalanges}} phalanx (plural phalanxes or phalanges)
  1. (historical, plural phalanxes) 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. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Ancient Greece, Collectives, Military units Translations (ancient Greek military unit): falang [masculine] (Albanian), tufë trima (Albanian), φάλαγξ (phálanx) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), փաղանգ (pʿaġang) (Armenian), фала́нга (falánha) [feminine] (Belarusian), фаланга (falanga) [feminine] (Bulgarian), falange [feminine] (Catalan), 方陣 (Chinese Mandarin), 方阵 (fāngzhèn) (Chinese Mandarin), falanga [feminine] (Czech), falanks [common-gender] (Danish), falanx (Dutch), falango (Esperanto), falangi (Finnish), phalange [feminine] (French), falanxe [feminine] (Galician), Phalanx [feminine] (German), φάλαγγα (fálanga) [feminine] (Greek), kjúka [feminine] (Icelandic), falang [masculine] (Irish), falange [feminine] (Italian), ファランクス (farankusu) (Japanese), phalanga [feminine] (Latin), phalanx [feminine] (Latin), фаланга (falanga) [feminine] (Macedonian), falanga [feminine] (Polish), falange [feminine] (Portuguese), falangă [feminine] (Romanian), фала́нга (falánga) [feminine] (Russian), фаланга [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), falanga [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), falanga [feminine] (Slovene), falange [feminine] (Spanish), falang [common-gender] (Swedish), фала́нга (falánha) [feminine] (Ukrainian), phalanx (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-phalanx-en-noun-SNjlPUL9 Disambiguation of Ancient Greece: 29 28 21 21 Disambiguation of Collectives: 22 31 31 17 Disambiguation of Military units: 43 23 21 12 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 16 26 27 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 28 32 20 20 Disambiguation of 'ancient Greek military unit': 85 6 5 3
  2. (historical sociology) A Fourierite utopian community; a phalanstery. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Ancient Greece, Collectives
    Sense id: en-phalanx-en-noun-yTAC8QhV Disambiguation of Ancient Greece: 29 28 21 21 Disambiguation of Collectives: 22 31 31 17 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 16 26 27 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 28 32 20 20 Topics: human-sciences, sciences, social-science, sociology
  3. (plural phalanxes or (rare) phalanges) A large group of people, animals or things, compact or closely massed, or tightly knit and united in common purpose. Categories (topical): Ancient Greece, Collectives Translations (large group of animals, plants, or people): orda [feminine] (Italian), falanga [feminine] (Polish) Translations (large group of people): falange [feminine] (Catalan), falangi (Finnish), φάλαγγα (fálanga) [feminine] (Greek), orda [feminine] (Italian), фаланга (falanga) [feminine] (Macedonian), falanga [feminine] (Polish), фала́нга (falánga) [feminine] (Russian), фаланга [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), falanga [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-phalanx-en-noun-rlp1-e1f Disambiguation of Ancient Greece: 29 28 21 21 Disambiguation of Collectives: 22 31 31 17 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 16 26 27 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 28 32 20 20 Disambiguation of 'large group of animals, plants, or people': 17 12 59 13 Disambiguation of 'large group of people': 5 9 86 0
  4. (anatomy, plural phalanges) One of the bones of the finger or toe. Categories (topical): Skeleton, Ancient Greece, Collectives Synonyms (bone of the finger or toe): phalange [anatomy, medicine, sciences] Translations (finger or toe bone): سُلَامَى (sulāmā) [masculine] (Arabic), سُلَامِيَّة (sulāmiyya) [feminine] (Arabic), մատնահատված (matnahatvac) (Armenian), фала́нга (falánha) [feminine] (Belarusian), фала́нга (falánga) [feminine] (Bulgarian), falange [feminine] (Catalan), 指骨 (zhǐgǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), 趾骨 (zhǐgǔ) (english: toe bone) (Chinese Mandarin), článek prstu [masculine] (Czech), falanks [common-gender] (Danish), kootje [neuter] (Dutch), falango (Esperanto), varpaanluu (english: toe) (Finnish), sormiluu (english: finger) (Finnish), phalange [feminine] (French), falanxe [feminine] (Galician), Fingerglied [neuter] (German), Zehenglied (english: toe bone) [neuter] (German), φάλαγγα (fálanga) [feminine] (Greek), גָּלִיל (galíl) [masculine] (Hebrew), kjúka [feminine] (Icelandic), falang [masculine] (Irish), falange [feminine] (Italian), 指骨 (shikotsu) (alt: しこつ) (Japanese), 趾骨 (shikotsu) (english: toe bone) (alt: しこつ) (Japanese), 지골 (jigol) (Korean), фаланга (falanga) [feminine] (Macedonian), falanks (Malay), iwi mati (Maori), hestiyên pêçiyê (Northern Kurdish), hestiyên tilîyê (Northern Kurdish), falang [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), falanja [feminine] (Occitan), paliczek [masculine] (Polish), falange [feminine] (Portuguese), falangă [feminine] (Romanian), фала́нга (falánga) [feminine] (Russian), суста́в па́льца (sustáv pálʹca) [masculine] (Russian), фаланга [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), falanga [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), článok prstu [masculine] (Slovak), falange [feminine] (Spanish), falang [common-gender] (Swedish), фала́нга (falánha) [feminine] (Ukrainian), doatabomil (english: finger) (Volapük), teanabomil (english: toe) (Volapük), ffalang [feminine, masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-phalanx-en-noun-HS8m4IAV Disambiguation of Ancient Greece: 29 28 21 21 Disambiguation of Collectives: 22 31 31 17 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 16 26 27 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 28 32 20 20 Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'bone of the finger or toe': 11 6 11 72 Disambiguation of 'finger or toe bone': 0 0 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: distal phalanx, intermediate phalanx, middle phalanx, phalangeal, proximal phalanx

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2009 April 16, Jon Mooallem, “The End Is Near! (Yay!)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "[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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, The Chair of the Indian KIng, page 93",
          "text": "The monarch hath gone, but his rocky throne\nStill rests on its frowning base;\nIts motionless guards rise in phalanx lone,\nAnd nought save the winds through their helmets that moan,\nAnd none but those bosoms and hearts of stone\nSigh o'er a fallen race.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1895, Ida M[inerva] Tarbell, “The Second Funeral of Napoleon.—Removal of Napoleon’s Remains from St. Helena to the Banks of the Seine in 1840.”, in A Short Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, New York, N.Y.: S[amuel] S[idney] MᶜClure, Limited […], page 240, column 1",
          "text": "From Courbevoie to the Hôtel des Invalides, one walked through a hedge of elaborate decorations—of bees, eagles, crowns, N’s; of bucklers, banners, and wreaths bearing the names of famous victories; of urns blazing with incense; of rostral columns; masts bearing trophies of arms and clusters of flags; flaming tripods; allegorical statues; triumphal arches; great banks of seats draped in imperial purple and packed with spectators, and phalanges of soldiers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 331",
          "text": "Broad phalanx of cars across the bridge moving slowly through the streaming snow.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 April 25, Hélène Mulholland, “Blair refuses to condemn FoI bill”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2014-10-03",
          "text": "The Guardian today listed a phalanx of ministers who back the bill, including Tessa Jowell, the culture secretary, Tony McNulty, the policing minister, Andy Burnham, the junior health minister, Ian Pearson, the climate change minister, John Healey, the financial secretary to the Treasury, and Keith Hill, parliamentary private secretary to Tony Blair.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 May 6, Sean O'Hagan, “The day I thought would never come: This week, Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness will astonish those who experienced the Troubles”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2014-10-03",
          "text": "There, the Paisleyites were being held back by another phalanx of soldiers and policemen.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Maria Nugent, “[In between] The second day”, in Captain Cook Was Here, Cambridge University Press, page 58",
          "text": "For a short time the two phalanges of men faced each other at a distance apart.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Sugata Nandi, “Insurrectionary city: Revolts in colonial Calcutta, 1918–1946”, in Urvi Mukhopadhyay, Suchandra Ghosh, editors, Exploring South Asian Urbanity, Routledge, →DOI, part V (Urban fringes and insurrections), chapter section “The mass and Gandhi Raj, 1918–1922”",
          "text": "The next day, phalanges of soldiers blocked all entrances to the city as rumours that Muslim workers from all around Calcutta would throng the venue of the meeting in protest reached the commissioner of the city Police.",
          "type": "quotation"
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      "code": "sq",
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "falang"
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      "word": "tufë trima"
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      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "word": "փաղանգ"
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        "feminine"
      ],
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    },
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фаланга"
    },
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "falange"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "word": "方陣"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fāngzhèn",
      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "word": "方阵"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "falanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "falanks"
    },
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      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "word": "falanx"
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      "code": "eo",
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      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "word": "falango"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "word": "falangi"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "phalange"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "falanxe"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Phalanx"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "fálanga",
      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "φάλαγγα"
    },
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      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "phálanx",
      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "φάλαγξ"
    },
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      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kjúka"
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "falang"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "falange"
    },
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      "code": "ja",
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      "roman": "farankusu",
      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "word": "ファランクス"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
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      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "phalanga"
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      "code": "la",
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      ],
      "word": "phalanx"
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    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "falanga",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фаланга"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "falanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "falange"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "falangă"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
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      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фала́нга"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "tags": [
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        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фаланга"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "falanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "falanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "falange"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "falang"
    },
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "falánha",
      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фала́нга"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "ancient Greek military unit",
      "word": "phalanx"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "sulāmā",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "سُلَامَى"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "sulāmiyya",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "سُلَامِيَّة"
    },
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      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "matnahatvac",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "word": "մատնահատված"
    },
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      "code": "be",
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      "roman": "falánha",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фала́нга"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "falánga",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фала́нга"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "falange"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhǐgǔ",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "word": "指骨"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "english": "toe bone",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhǐgǔ",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "word": "趾骨"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "článek prstu"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "falanks"
    },
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "kootje"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "word": "falango"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "toe",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "word": "varpaanluu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "finger",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "word": "sormiluu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "phalange"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "falanxe"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Fingerglied"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "toe bone",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Zehenglied"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "fálanga",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "φάλαγγα"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "galíl",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "גָּלִיל"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kjúka"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "falang"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "falange"
    },
    {
      "alt": "しこつ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shikotsu",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "word": "指骨"
    },
    {
      "alt": "しこつ",
      "code": "ja",
      "english": "toe bone",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shikotsu",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "word": "趾骨"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "jigol",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "word": "지골"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "word": "hestiyên pêçiyê"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "word": "hestiyên tilîyê"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "falanga",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фаланга"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "word": "falanks"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "word": "iwi mati"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "falang"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "falanja"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "paliczek"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "falange"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "falangă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "falánga",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фала́нга"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sustáv pálʹca",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "суста́в па́льца"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фаланга"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "falanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "článok prstu"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "falange"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "falang"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "falánha",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фала́нга"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "english": "finger",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "word": "doatabomil"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "english": "toe",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "word": "teanabomil"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "finger or toe bone",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ffalang"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "large group of animals, plants, or people",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "orda"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "large group of animals, plants, or people",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "falanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "large group of people",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "falange"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "large group of people",
      "word": "falangi"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "fálanga",
      "sense": "large group of people",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "φάλαγγα"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "large group of people",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "orda"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "falanga",
      "sense": "large group of people",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фаланга"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "large group of people",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "falanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "falánga",
      "sense": "large group of people",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фала́нга"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "large group of people",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фаланга"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "large group of people",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "falanga"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Phalanx bone",
    "phalanx"
  ],
  "word": "phalanx"
}
{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: plural phalanxes or (rare) phalanges",
  "path": [
    "phalanx"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "phalanx",
  "trace": ""
}

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