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 dividedhierarchically 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
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Examples
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Sometimes a phalanstery is a necessity, but it would be hateful, were it the general rule.
The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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"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
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Company of phalanstery of Own way the phalanstery one is a self-sufficing city.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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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
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Company of phalanstery of Own way the phalanstery one is a self-sufficing city.
La vie rêvée 2008
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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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