autarchy

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Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
16
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈɔːtəki/
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/ˈɔːtəki/ · /-tɑː-/ · /ˈɔˌtɑɹki/

Definition of autarchy

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A condition of absolute power.
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A condition of absolute power.
  2. (countable, uncountable)Autocracy (absolute rule by a single person).
    “Like Philip's, Franco's autarchy was shrouded in religiosity—not Christianity alone, but also a sort of dim Wagnerian vision of hero-gods and Valhallas, a gloomy level of devotion on which paganism, Catholicism and the apotheosis of the State could conveniently be mingled.”
  3. (countable, uncountable)Sovereignty or self-government (national political independence).
  4. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable)Alternative spelling of autarky (“personal condition or state of self-reliance; (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency; self-sufficient country or region”).

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Etymology

From Medieval Latin autarchia, from Koine Greek αὐταρχία (autarkhía, “absolute power, sovereignty, autocracy”), from αὔταρχος (aútarkhos, “autocratic”), from αὐτ- (aut-, “self”) + ἄρχω (árkhō, “to rule, govern”).

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