"1984" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the title of George Orwell’s 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Compare Orwellian.",
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      "derived": [
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          "word": "1984-esque"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1954 June 28, Time:",
          "text": "Many a thoughtful man, musing over his second Martini and the evening paper, has had the uneasy feeling that 1984 was much closer.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 January 15, The Guardian:",
          "text": "Yet these proposals are already being presented by the Conservatives - and many on the left - as yet another step into 1984, part of a proto-tyrannical package ranging from CCTV cameras to Asbos to the DNA database that they cite as evidence Britain is sleepwalking into a surveillance society.",
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        {
          "ref": "2010, Peter Dale Scott, quoted in David Ray Griffin, Cognitive Infiltration",
          "text": "Those who seek to prevent 2010 from becoming 1984 will want to arm themselves with this valuable book."
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A totalitarian or dystopic society, especially when characterised by intense surveillance of its citizens. Also used attributively."
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          "surveillance",
          "surveillance"
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      "wikipedia": [
        "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
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      "ipa": "/ˌnʌɪntiːnˌeɪtiˈfɔː/",
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  "word": "1984"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "1984-esque"
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    {
      "word": "1984-ish"
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  "etymology_text": "From the title of George Orwell’s 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Compare Orwellian.",
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          "ref": "1954 June 28, Time:",
          "text": "Many a thoughtful man, musing over his second Martini and the evening paper, has had the uneasy feeling that 1984 was much closer.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 January 15, The Guardian:",
          "text": "Yet these proposals are already being presented by the Conservatives - and many on the left - as yet another step into 1984, part of a proto-tyrannical package ranging from CCTV cameras to Asbos to the DNA database that they cite as evidence Britain is sleepwalking into a surveillance society.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Peter Dale Scott, quoted in David Ray Griffin, Cognitive Infiltration",
          "text": "Those who seek to prevent 2010 from becoming 1984 will want to arm themselves with this valuable book."
        }
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        "A totalitarian or dystopic society, especially when characterised by intense surveillance of its citizens. Also used attributively."
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        "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
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  "word": "1984"
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