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# anarchist

«anarchist» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who believes there should be no government or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (anarchist, anarchists); adjective (anarchist)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who believes there should be no government or rulers and people should organise themselves freely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anarchist/#m1)

2) (loose use) A person who wants to break rules and cause chaos. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anarchist/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Met in history and politics lessons and in stories. Different anarchists had very different ideas; most were peaceful thinkers, a few used violence. Phrases: «anarchist ideas».

### examples

- The anarchist wrote books about life without government. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anarchist/#x1)
- Some anarchists set up communities in Spain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anarchist/#x2)
- He called himself an anarchist, but he still paid his bus fare. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anarchist/#x3)
- Anarchist ideas spread in the 1800s. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anarchist/#x4)
- The rebel in the story was a wild anarchist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anarchist/#x5)
- Not every anarchist believes in violence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anarchist/#x6)

### note

Related: anarchy (no government, often meaning chaos), anarchism. Do not assume all anarchists are violent — that is a myth.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «anarchist» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anarchist/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.