| 单词 | big brother |
| 释义 | big brothernounan elder brother. (sometimes initial capital letters) a man who individually or as a member of an organized group undertakes to sponsor or assist a boy in need of help or guidance. (usually initial capital letters) the head of a totalitarian regime that keeps its citizens under close surveillance. (usually initial capital letters) the aggregate of officials and policy makers of a powerful and pervasive state. Citizens Band Radio Slang. a police officer or police car. Origin of big brother1860–65; 1949 for defs. 3, 4, the epithet of a dictator in G. Orwell's novel 1984 Words nearby big brotherBig Blue River, Big Board, big-boned, big-box, Big Boy, big brother, Big Brotherism, Big Brother is watching you, big bucks, big bud, big business Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for big brother
British Dictionary definitions for big brotherBig Brother nouna person, organization, etc, that exercises total dictatorial control 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 Word Origin for Big BrotherC20: after a character in George Orwell's novel 1984 (1949) Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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