Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A self-sustaining cooperative community of the followers of Fourierism.
  • noun The buildings in such a community.
  • noun An association resembling a Fourierist phalanstery.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun 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.
  • noun A communal house of a primitive tribe.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An association or community organized on the plan of Fourier. See Fourierism.
  • noun The dwelling house of a Fourierite community.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun 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.
  • noun The dwelling house of a Fourierite community.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French phalanstère : phalange, phalanx (from Latin phalanx, phalang-; see phalanx) + (mona)stère, monastery (from Late Latin monastērium; see monastery).]

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Examples

  • Sometimes a phalanstery is a necessity, but it would be hateful, were it the general rule.

    The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin

  • 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).

    The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin

  • "phalanstery" -- five hundred or a thousand people living in one great palace, built in the form of a hollow square.

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Elbert Hubbard 1885

  • It is a kind of phalanstery which amuses us, and where mutual liberty is much better guaranteed than in that of the Fourierists ...

    Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

  • 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" Various

  • "phalanstery" as the solution of human troubles, and it comes to me that he must have met or in other words heard of M.

    A Small Boy and Others Henry James 1879

  • Company of phalanstery of Own way the phalanstery one is a self-sufficing city.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • 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.

    La vie rêvée 2008

  • Company of phalanstery of Own way the phalanstery one is a self-sufficing city.

    La vie rêvée 2008

  • 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.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

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