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orwell

Or·well
O o

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    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [awr-wel, -wuh l]
    • /ˈɔr wɛl, -wəl/
    • /ˈɔˌrwel/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [awr-wel, -wuh l]
    • /ˈɔr wɛl, -wəl/

Definitions of orwell word

  • noun orwell George (Eric Arthur Blair) 1903–50, English novelist and essayist. 1
  • noun Definition of orwell in Technology Lazy functional language, Miranda-like. List comprehensions and pattern matching. "Introduction to Orwell 5.00", P.L. Wadler et al, Programming Research Group, Oxford U, 1988. 1
  • noun orwell 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 0
  • noun orwell George(pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair) 1903-50; Eng. writer 0
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A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 82% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Related words

  • orwellian

    of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary work of George Orwell or the totalitarian future described in his antiutopian novel 1984 (1949).

  • doublethink

    the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.

  • newspeak

    (sometimes initial capital letter) an official or semiofficial style of writing or saying one thing in the guise of its opposite, especially in order to serve a political or ideological cause while pretending to be objective, as in referring to “increased taxation” as “revenue enhancement.”.
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