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

Animal Farm set in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe with the president a horse and his ambitious wife a Gucci-wearing donkey.

From BBC • Sep. 6, 2022

A bookshelf lamp that casts a buttery glow on the plastic "Moana" figures who keep watch near the classroom set copies of "Animal Farm."

From Salon • Aug. 27, 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

But free speech is not served when some users are more “equal” than others—to borrow from Orwell’s Animal Farm.

From Slate • Dec. 4, 2020

One symptom of this was that they had begun to call Animal Farm by its proper name and ceased to pretend that it was called the Manor Farm.

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