Etymology

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Today it means: A society characterized by rigid government control enforced through propaganda and intensive surveillance. Full definition →

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The story

After Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), a dystopian novel by George Orwell, set in the year 1984.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.