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noun
- 1. a person or organization exercising total control over people's lives: "Big Brother will be watching you from this week when spy cameras start to operate in Essex"
- 2. a member of a voluntary organization founded in 1925 which provided foster care for young British immigrants to Australia: historical Australian "he had the honour to be a Big Brother to one of them"
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1. : an older brother. 2. : a man who serves as a companion, father figure, and role model for a boy. 3. Big Brother [Big Brother, personification of the power of the state in 1984 (1949) by George Orwell] a. : the leader of an authoritarian state or movement. b. : an all-powerful government or organization monitoring and directing people's actions
Big Brother definition: 1. a way of referring to a government, ruler, or person in authority that has complete power and…. Learn more.
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.
noun. 1. a person, organization, etc, that exercises total dictatorial control. 2. 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.
an 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.
(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.
Big Brother Definition. An older brother. One's older brother. A man who assumes the role of an older brother, as by providing guidance or protection. A man who undertakes the role of friend and mentor to a disadvantaged boy, as through a social agency.
