Definition of 'anarchist'
Word forms: plural anarchists
1. countable noun [oft NOUN noun]
An anarchist is a person who believes in anarchism.
West Berlin always had a large anarchist community.
...a well-known anarchist poet.
2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
If someone has anarchist beliefs or views, they believe in anarchism.
He was apparently quite converted from his anarchist views.
3. countable noun
If you say that someone is an anarchist, you disapprove of them because they seem to pay no attention to the rules or laws that everyone else obeys.
[disapproval] He was a social anarchist.
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noun
1.
a person who advocates the abolition of government and a social system based on voluntary cooperation
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Derived forms
adjective
noun
1.
a person who believes in or advocates anarchism
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Example sentences containing 'anarchist'
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It is not only anarchists and environmentalists who are fed up. Times, Sunday Times (2009)According to an eyewitness, he was cornered by a group of anarchists. Times, Sunday Times (2010)It is feared that the anarchists and hardline revolutionary groups want to encourage people to use the peaceful protests to cause violence and disruption. Times, Sunday Times (2010)A mix of socialists and anarchists seized Munich. The Sun (2014)
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Translations for 'anarchist'
British English: anarchist ADJECTIVE
If someone has anarchist beliefs or views, they believe in anarchism.
He was apparently quite converted from his anarchist views.
- American English: anarchist
- Brazilian Portuguese: anarquista
- Chinese: 无政府主义的
- European Spanish: anarquista
- French: anarchiste
- German: anarchistisch
- Italian: anarchico
- Japanese: 無政府主義の
- Korean: 무정부주의자적인
- European Portuguese: anarquista
- Spanish: anarquista
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