familistery
English
Etymology
French familistère.
Noun
familistery (plural familisteries)
- A community in which many people unite, like a single family, and are regulated by certain communistic laws and customs.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for familistery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)