different between anarchy vs anarch

English

Etymology

From New Latin anarchia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (anarkhía).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æ.n?.ki/
• (US) enPR: ?n?är-k?, IPA^(key): /?æn.??.ki/

Noun

anarchy (countable and uncountable, plural anarchies)

1. (uncountable) The state of a society being without authorities or an authoritative governing body.
2. (uncountable) Anarchism; the political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by a government, which is regarded as being coercive by nature.
3. (countable) A chaotic and confusing absence of any form of political authority or government.
4. Confusion in general; disorder.

Synonyms

• see Thesaurus:disorder

Antonyms

• (all senses): nonanarchy (rare)
• (disorder): order

Derived terms

Translations

English

Noun

anarch (plural anarchs)

1. The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II, lines 988 to 990.

   • 1830, George Gordon Byron, Thomas Moore (editor), poem fragment, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volume 1, page 302,

     One rank'd in some recording page / With the worst anarchs of the age, / Him wilt thou know — and, knowing, pause,

   • 1910, Elbert Hubbard, Fra Magazine: A Journal of Affirmation, January 1910 to June 1910, page One Hundred,

     As all the world knows, Emma Goldman is the chief anarch of her time.

Translations

Anagrams

• Charan