Archy
noun
a first name, form of Archibald.
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Archy
1 American
[ahr-chee]
/ ˈɑr tʃi /
noun
-archy
2
American
-archy
British
combining form
Usage
What does -archy mean? The combining form -archy is used like a suffix meaning “rule” or "government." It is often used in technical terms, especially in sociology. The form -archy comes from Greek -archēs, meaning “rule, government.”What are variants of -archy?While -archy doesn't have any variants, it is related to the form -arch, as in matriarch. Want to know more? Read our Words That Use article for -arch.
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Etymology
Origin of -archy
Middle English -archie < Latin -archia < Greek, equivalent to arch ( os ) or -arch ( ēs ) -arch + -ia -y 3
Example Sentences
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“How long did it take to realize something so obvious, so easy to predict, so blindingly stupid?” asked Archy Dosburg.
From Fox News • Apr. 26, 2019
Few contemporary artists sound as much like themselves as Archy Marshall, who seems to have bagsied a whole set of sadly chiming chords to go with his jarring baritone.
From The Guardian • Dec. 5, 2017
Who could have imagined King Krule, the snarling London art-punk project from singer Archy Marshall, sharing a stage with Los Tigres del Norte within a few hours of each other?
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2017
At one point Archy reflects that in our age “everything good in life was either synthesized in transgenic cyborg vats or shade-grown in small batches by a Buddhist collective of blind ex-Carmelite Wiccans.”
From Salon • Sep. 20, 2012
Ursula Granger had given birth to a boy named Archy, who later died.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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