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

As well as Animal Farm, the following titles have also received funding:

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

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

This bitingly timely satire, which dared to do for Ataturk what Animal Farm did for Stalin, offers a devastating commentary on what Tanpinar himself described as the country’s late arrival into the modern world.

From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 2020

In glowing sentences he painted a picture of Animal Farm as it might be when sordid labour was lifted from the an-imals’ backs.

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