ANARCHIST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does anarchist mean? 

• ANARCHIST (noun)
  The noun ANARCHIST has 1 sense:

1. an advocate of anarchism

  Familiarity information: ANARCHIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANARCHIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An advocate of anarchism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

anarchist; nihilist; syndicalist

Hypernyms ("anarchist" is a kind of...):

radical (a person who has radical ideas or opinions)

Instance hyponyms:

Bakunin; Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin; Mikhail Bakunin (Russian anarchist; ally and later opponent of Karl Marx (1814-1876))

Emma Goldman; Goldman (United States anarchist (born in Russia) who opposed conscription; was deported to the Soviet Union in 1919 (1869-1940))

Kropotkin; Prince Peter Kropotkin; Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (Russian anarchist (1842-1921))

Nicola Sacco; Sacco (United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Bartolomeo Vanzetti was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1891-1927))

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker; Tucker (United States anarchist influential before World War I (1854-1939))

Bartolomeo Vanzetti; Vanzetti (United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Nicola Sacco was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1888-1927))

Derivation:

anarchistic (of or related to anarchism or tending toward anarchism)

anarchy (a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government))

 Context examples 

Father's a railroad president and many times millionnaire, but the son's starving in 'Frisco, editing an anarchist sheet for twenty-five a month.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

No one but an anarchist would go about breaking statues.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Then it is good to be an anarchist!” he cried.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He learned, also, that he spoke nightly to the workmen in the City Hall Park, and that among the anarchists and agitators that there inflamed the minds of the people he drew the largest audiences and made the most revolutionary speeches.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)