Orwell

[awr-wel, -wuhl]

noun

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

Orwell

/ ˈɔːwəl, ɔːˈwɛlɪən, -wɛl /

noun

1. 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

Other Word Forms

• Orwellian adjective

Example Sentences

That was the day the BBC unveiled a statue of George Orwell outside its headquarters.

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Beyond its entertainment value, McPherson sees the play as both “a reminder and a warning,” like George Orwell’s “1984.”

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On Tuesday, Sept. 30, the Yale University Film Society, via email, announced a screening the following day of “Orwell: 2+2=5,” the latest documentary from Academy Award-nominated director Raoul Peck.

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“A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy,” Orwell wrote in his diary while he was working on the book.

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Unless, of course, that writer is George Orwell.

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