anarchist

See also: Anarchist

English

Etymology

From French anarchiste, from Ancient Greek ἀναρχία (anarkhía) from the roots ἀν- (an-, “without”) + ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “rule”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.ə.kɪst/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) enPR: ănʹər-kĭst, IPA^(key): /ˈæn.ɑɹ.kɪst/

Noun

anarchist (plural anarchists)

1. One who believes in or advocates the absence of hierarchy and authority in most forms (compare anarchism), especially one who works toward the realization of such.
   • 2000 August 5, Joseph Kahn, “Anarchism, the Creed That Won't Stay Dead; The Spread of World Capitalism Resurrects a Long-Dormant Movement”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     But nothing has revived anarchism like globalization. Anarchists are now battling what they see as a concentration of power in multinational corporations.

2. One who disregards laws and social norms as a form of rebellion against authority.
3. (by extension) One who promotes chaos and lawlessness.

   Synonym: nihilist

   • 1929, Alexander Berkman, “Is Anarchism Violence?”, in Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism, New York: Vanguard Press, →OCLC:

     You have heard that Anarchists throw bombs, that they believe in violence, and that Anarchy means disorder and chaos.

4. One who resents outside control or influence on their life, in particular a government, and therefore desires the absence of political control.

Usage notes

• Self-identified anarchists in sense 1 may object to the use of this term in senses 2 and 3.

Derived terms

• anarchist capitalism
• anarchist capitalist
• anarchist communism
• anarchist communist
• anarchist feminism
• anarchist feminist
• anarchist naturism
• anarchist naturist
• anti-anarchist
• capitalist anarchist
• collectivist anarchist
• communist anarchist
• crypto-anarchist
• existentialist anarchist
• green anarchist
• individualist anarchist
• left anarchist
• left-wing anarchist
• national-anarchist
• naturist anarchist
• philosophical anarchist
• post-anarchist
• queer anarchist

 

Related terms

• anarchy
• anarch
• anarcho-

Translations

believer in anarchism

• Arabic: فَوْضَوِيّ‎ m (fawḍawiyy), فَوْضَوِيَّة‎ f (fawḍawiyya)
• Asturian: anarquista m or f
• Belarusian: анархі́ст m (anarxíst), анархі́стка f (anarxístka)
• Bulgarian: анархи́ст m (anarhíst), анархи́стка (bg) f (anarhístka)
• Catalan: anarquista m or f
• Czech: anarchista (cs) m, anarchistka (cs) f
• Dutch: anarchist (nl) m
• Esperanto: anarĥiisto (eo), anarkiisto (eo), anarĥiulo, anarkiulo
• Finnish: anarkisti (fi)
• French: anarchiste (fr) m or f
• Galician: anarquista (gl) m or f
• Georgian: ანარქისტი (anarkisṭi)
• German: Anarchist (de) m, Anarchistin (de) f
• Greek: αναρχικός (el) m (anarchikós), αναρχική (el) f (anarchikí)
• Hebrew: אָנַרְכִיסְט‎ m
• Hungarian: anarchista (hu)
• Ido: anarkiisto (io)
• Indonesian: anarkis (id)
• Irish: ainrialaí m
• Italian: anarchico (it) m, anarchica (it) f
• Ladino: anarkisto m, anarkista f
• Lithuanian: anarchistas m
• Macedonian: анархи́ст m (anarhíst), анархи́стка f (anarhístka)
• Malay: anarkis
• Norman: anarchiste m or f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: anarkist (no) m

• Plautdietsch: Anarkjist m
• Polish: anarchista (pl) m, anarchistka (pl) f
• Portuguese: anarquista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: anarhist (ro) m, anarhistă (ro) f
• Russian: анархи́ст (ru) m (anarxíst), анархи́стка (ru) f (anarxístka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ана̀рхист m, ана̀рхисткиња f

  Roman: anàrhist (sh) m, anàrhistkinja (sh) f

• Slovak: anarchista m, anarchistka f
• Spanish: anarquista (es) m or f, ácrata (es)
• Swedish: anarkist (sv) c
• Turkish: anarşist (tr)
• Ukrainian: анархі́ст (uk) m (anarxíst), анархі́стка (uk) f (anarxístka)
• Yiddish: אַנאַרכיסט‎ m (anarkhist)

nihilist — see nihilist

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Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} anarĥiisto (eo)

See also

• libertarian

Adjective

anarchist (comparative more anarchist, superlative most anarchist)

1. (somewhat rare) Relating to anarchism or to anarchists; anarchistic.

Anagrams

• Thracians, antiarchs, anticrash, cantharis

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French anarchiste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ.nɑrˈxɪst/

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• Hyphenation: an‧ar‧chist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

Noun

anarchist m (plural anarchisten, diminutive anarchistje n)

1. anarchist [from late 18th c.]

Descendants

• Afrikaans: anargis
• → Indonesian: anarkis

Romanian

Adjective

anarchist m or n (feminine singular anarchistă, masculine plural anarchiști, feminine and neuter plural anarchiste)

1. Obsolete form of anarhist.

Declension

Declension of anarchist

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	anarchist		anarchistă	anarchiști	anarchiste
	definite	anarchistul		anarchista	anarchiștii	anarchistele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	anarchist		anarchiste	anarchiști	anarchiste
	definite	anarchistului		anarchistei	anarchiștilor	anarchistelor

References

• anarchist in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN