Orwell

[ awr-wel, -wuhl ]

noun

1. George Eric Arthur Blair, 1903–50, English novelist and essayist.

Orwell

/ ˈɔːwəl; ɔːˈwɛlɪən; -wɛl /

noun

1. OrwellGeorge19031950MEnglishWRITING: novelistWRITING: essayist George, real name Eric Arthur Blair. 1903–50, English novelist and essayist, born in India. He is notable for his social criticism, as in The Road to Wigan Pier (1932); his account of his experiences of the Spanish Civil War Homage to Catalonia (1938); and his satirical novels Animal Farm (1945), an allegory on the Russian Revolution, and 1984 (1949), in which he depicts an authoritarian state of the future

Derived Forms

• Orwellian, adjective

Example Sentences

All art, George Orwell once proclaimed, is propaganda.

From Los Angeles Times

He added: "George Orwell described the Observer as 'the enemy of nonsense'. We’re excited to show readers, old and new, that it still is."

From BBC

And so, working inside the paradigm that Orwell described, Biden exerts control over the present, strives to control narratives about the past, and seeks to make it all seem normal, prefiguring the future.

From Salon

He says the journey times of lorry drivers is often hugely dependent on the flow of traffic over the Orwell Bridge at nearby Ipswich.

From BBC

There are multiple copies of Orwell’s classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four; the story in which Big Brother is always watching and the state has established near-total control over body and mind.

From BBC