Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun phalanx

3 senses of phalanx

Sense 1
phalanx -- (any of the bones of the fingers or toes)
       => bone, os -- (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)

Sense 2
phalanx -- (any closely ranked crowd of people)
       => crowd -- (a large number of things or people considered together; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers")

Sense 3
phalanx -- (a body of troops in close array)
       => military unit, military force, military group, force -- (a unit that is part of some military service; "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men")