Orwell

American  

[awr-wel, -wuhl] / ˈɔr wɛl, -wəl /

noun

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

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Orwell British  

/ ˈɔːwəl, -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

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Other Word Forms

• Orwellian
  adjective

Example Sentences

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Orwell

Clemson students from the conservative Young Americans for Liberty held signs reading “Make Orwell Fiction Again.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Serkis is certain that George Orwell himself would not have consigned this Animal Farm to Room 101.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

The idea of the government watching you is not just the makings of an Orwell novel or a political thriller.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

As the cautionary 1945 fable “Animal Farm” memorably shows, George Orwell had some thoughts about the Soviet Union and the terrible folly in politicized moralism.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

George Orwell once wrote that whenever a critic uses the word human, he usually renders it meaningless.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee