PHALANSTERY


Meaning of PHALANSTERY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈfa-lən-ˌster-ē ]

noun

( plural -ster·ies )

Etymology: French phalanstère dwelling of a Fourierist community, from Latin phalang-, phalanx + French -stère (as in monastère monastery)

Date: 1846

1.

a. : a Fourierist cooperative community

b. : a self-contained structure housing such a community

2. : something resembling a Fourierist phalanstery

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.