Orwell

English <dab!> Etymology en :inh enm:Orewelle<ety:inh<ang:Ordwella<ety:af<ang:ord><ang:wella<ety:from<ang:wiell>>>>>> 1 From en enm Orewelle (attested in Chaucer), from en ang Orewelle, ang Oredwelle, ang Ordwelle, ang Ordwella (attested in Domesday), from ang ord point wella springs, fountains. Pronunciation en /ˈɔːwɛl/ UK en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Orwell.wav Southern England en /ˈoɹwɛl/ US Proper noun en village/and/cpar in dist/South Cambridgeshire co/Cambridgeshire cc/England OS grid ref TL3650. Parish map (Cambridgeshire) en A tidal <<river>> in <<co/Suffolk>>, <<cc/England>>. en settlement co/Queens County p/Prince Edward Island c/Canada. en place c/USA: en twp co/Otter Tail County s/Minnesota. en town co/Oswego County s/New York, named after Orwell, Vermont. en village co/Ashtabula County s/Ohio, named after Orwell, Vermont. en twp/and/ucomm co/Bradford County s/Pennsylvania. en town co/Addison County s/Vermont. TopoZone: Orwell, Vermont en English (George Orwell took his name from the River Orwell). en Peter Foster Peter Foster: Sustainable Newspeak by 2050 w:Financial Post https://financialpost.com/opinion/peter-foster-sustainable-newspeak-by-2050 2021-01-05 Nineteen Eighty-Four was written in 1949. Its nightmarish fictional world is now 37 years in the past, so one might reasonably conclude that Orwell was far too pessimistic, but his great book was less a prediction than a warning, and above all an analysis of the totalitarian mentality. https://web.archive.org/web/20250430004204/https://financialpost.com/opinion/peter-foster-sustainable-newspeak-by-2050 30 April 2025 Usage notes In addition to the construction Orwellian, it is very common to use the author's pseudo-surname as a stand-in for "totalitarian" and to make coinages based on it, e.g. "Orwellabama" (Orwell + Alabama)"Orwellabama? Crimson Tide Track Locations to Keep Students at Games", The New York Times (September 12, 2019) or "Orwellesque"."George Orwell is stealing my work", American Thinker (November 14, 2016) Derived terms en Orwellism Orwellesque Orwellian Orwellianism Translations surname Arabic: ar أَرْوَل m Bulgarian: bg О́руел m f Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 奧韋爾 Àowéi'ěr Japanese: ja オーウェル Ōweru Marathi: mr ऑरवेल, mr ऑर्वेल Russian: ru О́руэлл Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Орвел Latin: sh Orvel Vietnamese: vi Ô-oen References Anagrams en ellorw Rowell Woller