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Definitions: Big Brother |
Big BrotherNoun1. An authoritarian leader. 2. An older brother. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Big Brother |
| English words defined with "Big Brother": ballyrag, boss around, browbeat, bully, bullyrag ♦ Hector ♦ push around ♦ strong-arm ♦ truculent. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
"Big Brother" is the nominal leader of Oceania in Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell's chilling dystopic novel .
"Big Brother" is a dictator in a totalitarian state, taken to its utmost logical consequence. In the society that Orwell describes, everybody is under complete surveillance by the authorities. The people are constantly reminded of this by the phrase "Big Brother is watching you", which is the core "truth" of the propaganda system in this state.
The physical description of "Big Brother" is reminiscent of Joseph Stalin. In the novel, it is not clear if he actually exists as a person, or is an image crafted by the state.Orwellian
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Screenplays | A toast to my big brother George. (It's a Wonderful Life; writing credit: Philip Van Doren Stern; Frances Goodrich) From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from a dead man greetings. (Nineteen Eighty-Four; writing credit: Jonathan Gems; George Orwell) It's all about big brother. (The Mangler 2; writing credit: Michael Hamilton-Wright) Hi, Big Brother, how's your ass? (The Omega Man; writing credit: Richard Matheson; John William Corrington) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Big Brother (1923) Her Big Brother (1914) Big Brother VIP (2003) Celebrity Big Brother for Charity Live (2002) Big Brother Brasil (2002) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | "The last evidence that anybody cares" says a soldier "over there" of the Y.M.C.A. dugout The Y.M.C.A. is our boys' "Big Brother" [...] What will you give to show them that somebody cares - that you care?/ / John F. Butler ; Globe Lithographing Company,.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Dennis Miller | For most law-abiding citizens, Big Brother is not watching us. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
big brother | 11,489 | big brother tv | 84 |
4 big brother | 4,327 | big brother linda | 84 |
big brother 3 | 1,253 | artelecom.ro big brother | 79 |
big brother uk | 1,062 | big brother live | 79 |
big brother australia | 1,016 | 1 big brother | 78 |
africa big brother | 1,003 | big brother t shirt | 62 |
big brother tv show | 957 | africa.com big brother | 60 |
channel 4 big brother | 715 | big brother magazine | 57 |
big brother big sister | 605 | big brother show | 57 |
big brother mexico | 416 | big brother house | 56 |
cbs big brother | 328 | big brother sister | 56 |
big brother 2 | 270 | big brother picture | 54 |
africa big brother south | 269 | big brother big sister of america | 53 |
4 big brother cbs | 210 | australian big brother | 52 |
big brother channel4.com | 189 | big brother channel four | 49 |
2 big brother mexico | 147 | big brother sa | 48 |
uncut big brother | 102 | bet big brother | 48 |
2003 big brother | 98 | big brother germany | 47 |
4 big brother uk | 97 | big brother pic | 46 |
3 australia big brother | 87 | big brother tonya | 45 |
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| Language | Translations for "Big Brother"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μεγάλος αδελφός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | igbay otherbray irmão mais velho (eldest daughter). (various references) storebror. (various references) ผู้นำ (chief, leader). (various references) diktatör (autocrat, Caesar, dictator, fuhrer, strong man, warlord), ağabey (elder brother). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Gobius capito, Gobius cobitis, Gobius jozo, Gobius niger jozo, Sequoia gigantea, Sequoiadendron giganteum, Wellingtonia gigantea. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-e-g-h-i-o-r-r-t" | |
-2 letters: brighter, throbber. | |
-3 letters: brother, heritor, orbiter, rebirth, righter. | |
-4 letters: begirt, bother, briber, bright, gibber, gibbet, gobbet, goiter, goitre, gorier, heriot, hobbit, hogtie, orbier, rhetor, ribber, righto, rioter, robber. | |
-5 letters: begot, berth, bight, bigot, birth, biter, bogie, boite, borer, bribe, brier, broth, eight, ergot, giber, girth, griot, grith, hirer, ither, orbit, other, rerig, retro, right. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 69 67 42 72 6F 74 68 65 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101001 01100111 00100000 01000010 01110010 01101111 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B i g   B r o t h e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0069 0067 0042 0072 006F 0074 0068 0065 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)367573236848186747184 |
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