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, 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

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Other Word Forms

• Orwellian
  adjective

Example Sentences

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Orwell

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

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

Those passages are surrounded by secular literature, such as works by Walt Whitman, Charles Dickens, Robert Frost, George Orwell and more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

Once upon a time, there was a world that made logical sense, one where the word “dystopia” was reserved for disaster films and George Orwell novels.

From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026

David Bowie’s “1984” was an easy win, based of course on the Orwell novel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026

I suppose I did let slip that I like Orwell.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein