Orwell

[ awr-wel, -wuhl ]

noun

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

Orwell

/ ɔːˈwɛlɪən; ˈɔːwəl; -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

A fog of conspiracy—of logic against logic, as Orwell put it—has descended on every major event in the war.

From The Daily Beast

Orwell put his finger on the core problem years before he wrote 1984.

From The Daily Beast

But 70 years after Orwell wrote those words, doublethink seems to be winning.

From The Daily Beast

But Orwell went to Spain for the express purpose of killing fascists, as he makes clear in the book Brand is quoting from.

From The Daily Beast

Ironically, Brand sees himself as an ideological soulmate of George Orwell, whose books are banned in Cuba.

From The Daily Beast

You remember that old political novel of Orwell's, written about forty years ago?

From Project Gutenberg

The tide was out at that time, and the banks of the Orwell are to this day a marvellous acreage of muddy foreshore at low water.

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At last, on February 20, he crossed over from Sluys to Orwell.

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Thus in Orwell the virgates are divided into thirds and quarters, and in several instances a man has four thirds of a virgate.

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The men of Orwell had been seeking lords, each man for himself, in the most opposite quarters.

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