ORWELL

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• ORWELL (noun)
  The noun ORWELL has 1 sense:

1. imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950)

  Familiarity information: ORWELL used as a noun is very rare.

• ORWELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Eric Arthur Blair; Eric Blair; George Orwell; Orwell

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Derivation:

Orwellian (of or relating to the works of George Orwell (especially his picture of a future totalitarian state))

 Context examples 

From Orwell to the Dart there was no port which did not send forth its little fleet, gay with streamer and bunting, as for a joyous festival.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Englishmen in those days were skilled and prompt in such matters, for it was so not long before that Edward had embarked as many as fifty thousand men in the port of Orwell, with their horses and their baggage, all in the space of four-and-twenty hours.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mon Dieu! yes, ye would not credit it to look at him, or to hearken to his soft voice, but from the sailing from Orwell down to the foray to Paris, and that is clear twenty years, there was not a skirmish, onfall, sally, bushment, escalado or battle, but Sir Nigel was in the heart of it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)