Animal Farm

American  

noun

1. a political satire (1945) by George Orwell.

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Animal Farm Cultural  

1. (1945) A novel of satire by George Orwell. Animals take over a farm to escape human tyranny, but the pigs treat the other animals worse than the people did. A famous quotation from the book is “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

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Example Sentences

George Orwell's classic novel Animal Farm is to be translated into Scots.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2022

In the process, McKibben leaves out from his apt comparison the unfortunate re-establishment of a totalitarian regime that occurred inside Animal Farm after the revolution.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2022

Seventy-five years ago, in August 1946, George Orwell's "Animal Farm" was published in the United States.

From Salon • Aug. 28, 2021

I recalled how I’d dutifully read Animal Farm for his class but before his lessons had only understood it as a more intense and militant version of Charlotte’s Web.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2021

Emboldened by the collapse of the windmill, the human beings were inventing fresh lies about Animal Farm.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell