The Collaborative International Dictionary
Phalanstery \Phal"an*ster*y\, n.; pl. -ies. [F. phalanst[`e]re, fr. Gr. ? a phalanx + ? firm, solid.]
An association or community organized on the plan of Fourier. See Fourierism.
The dwelling house of a Fourierite community.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1846, from French phalanstère, name for one of the socialistic communities of c.1,800 people, living together as family, proposed as the basic unit of society in the system of French social scientist François-Marie-Charles Fourier (1772-1837), coined by Fourier from phalange, properly "phalanx" (see phalanx) + ending after monastère "monastery."
Wiktionary
n. 1 An association or community organized on the plan of (w: Charles Fourier), with living space divided hierarchically and higher pay for those carrying out unpopular tasks. 2 The dwelling house of a Fourierite community.
Usage examples of "phalanstery".
Fourier discoursing about the phalanstery, about racial solidarity, and socialistic religion.
Even then, however, the details of the Fourierist blueprint for the future had seemed to him rather ridiculous, and he had agreed with his friend Valerian Maikov that the phalanstery hardly left any leeway for the freedom of the individual.
Fourierist term, which refers to the organization of labor in the phalanstery according to the dominating passions of various types of personalities.
Then she might turn her estates into a Phalanstery, and I would join her with my money, get her to marry me, and burst it all up triumphantly.
If Liputin ever did dream that a phalanstery might be realized in our province, this man was sure to know the day and hour when it would come about.
And Joe and I have to decide every day of our lives how to live here, whites only, no choice about that, no phalanstery without passes and black locations, white this and black that, beach houses for Olga and the kids I teach living fourteen people in two rooms in Soweto!
Utopian Socialists like Fourier, who appealed unsuccessfully to several monarchs to finance the establishment of phalansteries in their countries.