Yahoo Canada Web Search

Search results

1. Dictionary

   anarchy

   /ˈanəki/

   noun

   • 1. a state of disorder due to absence or non-recognition of authority or other controlling systems: "the country has been plunged into a state of anarchy"
   • 2. the organization of society on the basis of voluntary cooperation, without political institutions or hierarchical government; anarchism.

   Word Origin mid 16th century: via medieval Latin from Greek anarkhia, from anarkhos, from an- ‘without’ + arkhos ‘chief, ruler’.

   Scrabble Points: 15

   • A

     1

   • N

     1

   • A

     1

   • R

     1

   • C

     3

   • H

     4

   • Y

     4

   Powered by Oxford Dictionaries

   More definitions, origin and scrabble points