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big brother


big brother

n.1. An older brother.2. A man who assumes the role of an older brother, as by providing guidance or protection.3. a. also Big Brother An omnipresent, seemingly benevolent figure representing the oppressive control over individual lives exerted by an authoritarian government.b. A state, organization, or leader regarded in this manner.
[Sense 3, after Big Brother, , a character in the novel 1984 by George Orwell.]

Big Brother

n 1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a person, organization, etc, that exercises total dictatorial control 2. (Broadcasting) a television gameshow format in which a small number of people living in accommodation sealed off from the outside world are constantly monitored by TV cameras. Viewers vote each week to expel a person from the group until there is only one person left, who wins a cash prize [C20: after a character in George Orwell's novel 1984 (1949)]

big′ broth′er


n. 1. an elder brother. 2. (sometimes caps.) a man who undertakes to sponsor or assist a boy in need of help or guidance. 3. (caps.) a. the head of a totalitarian regime that keeps its citizens under close surveillance. b. the aggregate of powerful officials and policymakers of a totalitarian state. [1860–65; (definition 3) the epithet of a dictator in George Orwell's novel 1984 (1949)]
Thesaurus
Noun1.Big Brother - an authoritarian leader and invader of privacyBig Brother - an authoritarian leader and invader of privacyauthoritarian, dictator - a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner; "my boss is a dictator who makes everyone work overtime"
2.Big Brother - an older brotherbig brother - an older brother blood brother, brother - a male with the same parents as someone else; "my brother still lives with our parents"

Big Brother

nounAn absolute ruler, especially one who is harsh and oppressive:despot, dictator, führer, man on horseback, oppressor, strongman, totalitarian, tyrant.
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big brother


big brother

1. One's older brother. My big brother said he would help us move the couch. Andrew is Julie's big brother.2. A shorthand reference to oppressive rule that was popularized by George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In this usage, the phrase is usually capitalized. You have to be careful what you write in an email these days. Big Brother is watching you, after all.See also: big, brother

Big brother

the state perceived as a sinister force supervising citizens' lives. Big brother comes from the slogan Big Brother is watching you in George Orwell's novel 1984.See also: big, brother

ˌBig ˈBrother (is watching you)

a leader, a person in authority or a government that tries to control every aspect of people’s lives: We live in a society where all kinds of information about the individual may be stored on computer. Big Brother, if not actually watching you, can quickly check on you if he wants to.This comes from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, in which the leader of the government, Big Brother, had total control over people. The slogan ‘Big Brother is watching you’ reminded people that he knew everything they did.See also: big, brother

big brother

1. n. a personification of the totalitarian state. (From George Orwell’s 1984.) Big brother has changed the tax laws again. 2. n. someone who personifies the totalitarian state: the police, parents, teachers. Big brother says the paper is due tomorrow, or else. See also: big, brother

Big Brother


Big Brother

The totalitarian state in George Orwell's novel "1984." Written in 1949, the book offers a view of life 35 years into the future where the fictional English Socialist Party (referred to as Ingsoc) rules Oceania. Ever since, Big Brother has the connotation of a government that rules its citizens with an iron fist.

Considering the huge advancements in surveillance technology since the book was written, Big Brother is becoming more fact than fiction throughout the world. See Big Mother.
In a 1956 film adaptation of George Orwell’s novel, Edmond O’Brien played the part of Winston Smith, who tries to outsmart the oppression of Big Brother.

Big Brother

Conspiracy theorists say that the warning is no longer a literary allusion—Big Brother really is watching us.

The classic 1984 describes a gloomy scenario wherein a totalitarian government called “the Party” has complete control over its people at all times. Many refer to this novel as being a nearly perfect prophetic vision by the author, George Orwell, of a very bleak and dismal future, one that seems to be unfolding before our very eyes now in the twenty-first century.

Today we have the technology to dominate and track all citizens with brainwashing techniques, media (including television, movies, and computerlike devices that issue forth propaganda), tracking and spy systems that follow our every move, with the ability even to see and hear through walls. Yet in 1949 when Orwell wrote about these things, most were not yet in existence.

“Big Brother,” the supreme leader of the Party in Orwell’s novel, has come to be synonymous with a dictatorial society in which corporations and government take away our freedom, privacy, and ability to think for ourselves, ruling over us with total power and control. In the novel the Party’s slogan, “Big Brother Is Watching You,” is continually broadcast in and through all media. There is no place to hide as banners, posters, movie and TV screens, computers, stamps, coins, even thought transfer, all transmit the declaration of complete domination by Big Brother. By extension, Big Brother and “Big Brother Is Watching You” remain commonplaces in referring to any and all of the conspiracies involved in bringing about a One World Government.

Big Brother

all-seeing leader watches every move. [Br. Lit.: 1984]See: Omnipresence

Big Brother

omnipresent leader of a totalitarian nightmare world. [Br. Lit.: 1984]See: Tyranny
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