[phal.an.stery] n, pl -ster.ies [F phalanstere dwelling of a Fourierist community, fr. L phalang-, phalanx + F -stere (as in monastere monastery)] (1846) 1 a: a Fourierist cooperative community b: a self-contained structure housing such a community
2: something resembling a Fourierist phalanstery