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Meaning of phalange | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
ˈfælændʒ

Definitions

  1. A right-wing Lebanese paramilitary movement based somewhat on the Spanish Falange.
  2. Synonym of phalanx (“group of soldiers, people etc.”).
  3. Synonym of phalanx (“one of the bones of the finger or toe”).
  4. Any of the joints of an insect's tarsus.
  5. A bundle of stamens joined by their filaments.
  6. A phalanstery.

Equivalents

Français phalange phalange
Svenska falang

Examples

“The office of an Unarch is therefore but an honourable title. What can political authority be applied to in the Phalange, where all means of violence are absolutely useless, where no clashing interests, no enemies exist; […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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