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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024an•ar•chy /ˈænɚki/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]- Governmenta state of society without government or law:They favored anarchy over tyranny.
- confusion; chaos;
disorder:Their household was in a state of anarchy.
an•ar•chic /ænˈɑrkɪk/USA pronunciation an•ar•chi•cal, adj. an•ar•chi•cal•ly, adv. See -arch-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024an•ar•chy (an′ər kē),USA pronunciation n. - Governmenta state of society without government or law.
- Governmentpolitical and social disorder due to the absence of governmental control:The death of the king was followed by a year of anarchy.
- Governmenta theory that regards the absence of all direct or coercive government as a political ideal and that proposes the cooperative and voluntary association of individuals and groups as the principal mode of organized society.
- confusion;
chaos;
disorder:Intellectual and moral anarchy followed his loss of faith.
- Greek, anarchía lawlessness, literally, lack of a leader, equivalent. to ánarch(os) leaderless (an- an-1 + arch(ós) leader + -os adjective, adjectival suffix) + -ia -y3
- Middle French anarchie or Medieval Latin anarchia)
- (1530–40
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: anarchy /ˈænəkɪ/ n - general lawlessness and disorder, esp when thought to result from an absence or failure of government
- the absence or lack of government
- the absence of any guiding or uniting principle; disorder; chaos
- the theory or practice of political anarchism
Etymology: 16th Century: from Medieval Latin anarchia, from Greek anarkhia, from anarkhos without a ruler, from an- + arkh- leader, from arkhein to ruleanarchic /ænˈɑːkɪk/, anˈarchical adj |