Meaning of Orwell | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3650).
2. A tidal river in Suffolk, England.
3. A settlement in Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
4. A place in the United States:
5. A township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota.
6. A town in Oswego County, New York, named after Orwell, Vermont.
7. A village in Ashtabula County, Ohio, named after Orwell, Vermont.
8. A township and unincorporated community in Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
9. A town in Addison County, Vermont.
10. An English surname (George Orwell took his name from the River Orwell).

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Examples

“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.”

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