English Explanatory Dictionary

Nineteen Eighty-Four

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A society characterized by rigid government control enforced through propaganda and intensive surveillance.

Word forms

Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984

Etymology

After Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), a dystopian novel by George Orwell, set in the year 1984.

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