Anarchy



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 无政府;政治上的混乱
• ［英］ n. 无政府;政治上的混乱 ( political disorder)
• ［记］ an+archy ( 统治) -> 不统治 -> 无政府
• ［同］ 派生词: anarchic ( adj. 无政府的) ; anarchist ( n. 无政府主义者) 同根词: matriarchy ( 母权制) ; hierarchy ( 等级制度)

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Etymology: Medieval Latin anarchia, from Greek, from anarchos having no ruler, from an- + archos ruler — more at arch-
• Date: 1539
• 1.
  • a. absence of government
  • b. a state of lawlessness or political disorder due to the absence of governmental authority
  • c. a utopian society of individuals who enjoy complete freedom without government
• 2.
  • a. absence or denial of any authority or established order
  • b. absence of order ; disorder not manicured plots but a wild anarchy of nature — Israel Shenker
• 3. anarchism

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