George (Eric Arthur Blair)1903–50, English novelist and essayist.
British Dictionary definitions for Orwell
Orwell
/ˈɔːwəl; -wɛl/
noun
1.
George, real name Eric Arthur Blair. 1903–50, English novelist and essayist, born in India. He is notable for his social criticism, as in The Road to Wigan Pier (1932); his account of his experiences of the Spanish Civil War Homage to Catalonia (1938); and his satirical novels Animal Farm (1945), an allegory on the Russian Revolution, and 1984 (1949), in which he depicts an authoritarian state of the future
Derived Forms
Orwellian (ɔːˈwɛlɪən) adjective
Orwell in Technology
Lazy functional language, Miranda-like. List comprehensions and pattern matching. "Introduction to Orwell 5.00", P.L. Wadler et al, Programming Research Group, Oxford U, 1988.