phalanxes

Meaning of phalanxes

plural noun
  1. a body of troops or police officers standing or moving in close formation.
    six hundred marchers set off, led by a phalanx of police
  2. a bone of the finger or toe.

mid 16th century (denoting a body of Macedonian infantry): via Latin from Greek.

Information about phalanxes

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of phalanxes is: phalanx.
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Hyphenation of phalanxes

pha-lanxes

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
  • phalanxes is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with phalanxes

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