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

George Orwell’s 1939 novel, “Coming Up for Air,” tells the story of an unremarkable suburban London householder who is seized with a feeling of overwhelming dread by the looming terrors of war and totalitarianism.

From Salon

To say that today’s politics is Orwellian is being unkind to Orwell.

From Salon

Officers came to learn he had been living in carefully hidden camps, including one in Brantham, about a mile from where Ms Rose was attacked, as well as under the Orwell Bridge in Ipswich.

From BBC

George Orwell detested the sermons that came with tea and bread when he was destitute in London.

From Salon

Some of them were serious tomes, yes, but there were Agatha Christie novels, Orwell’s “1984” and art books too.

From Los Angeles Times