Usually means: Absence of government and authority.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word anarchy:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. anarchy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. anarchy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anarchy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. anarchy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. anarchy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Anarchy, anarchy: Wordnik
  7. anarchy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. anarchy: Wiktionary
  9. anarchy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. anarchy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. anarchy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Anarchy, anarchy: Dictionary.com
  13. anarchy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. anarchy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Anarchy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. anarchy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. anarchy: Rhymezone
  19. anarchy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. anarchy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. anarchy: Free Dictionary
  22. anarchy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. anarchy: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. anarchy: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Anarchy (disambiguation), anarchy: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. anarchy: Hacking Lexicon
  2. anarchy: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anarchy: Catholic Encyclopedia

(Note: See anarchies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The state of a society being without authorities or an authoritative governing body.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (countable) A chaotic and confusing absence of any form of political authority or government.
noun:  Confusion in general; disorder.

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