big brother

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English - Turkish
{i} ağabey

Bir ağabeyim ve iki kız kardeşim var. - I have one big brother and two little sisters.

Her halükârda o senin ağabeyin. - In any case, he's your big brother.

{i} diktatör
büyük kardeş
(isim) Atabey
English - English
The nominal leader of Oceania in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
By extension, a disparaging name for government surveillance considered to be too intrusive
A sibling's older brother (used especially by children or by parents in speaking to their children)

If you don't give me back my toys I'll tell my big brother!.

{i} fictional character who was the head of the totalitarian state in the novel "1984" by George Orwell
disapproval People sometimes use Big Brother to refer to a person, government, or organization when they think it has complete control over people and is always checking what they do. It's an attempt to control what reaches the public. Big Brother is watching. any person, organization, or system that seems to want to control people's lives and restrict their freedom (Big Brother powerful ruler who controlled everything in the book Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell)
{i} older brother; man who takes on to help or sponsor a boy in need of help or guiding; person who is an authoritarian leader and constantly watch over others; group or organization that uses tyrannical control and constantly watch over others
A common term used for the Government Coined by George Orwell in the book 1984 It refers to a large, encompassing government that essentially watches us all
Big Brother is a service monitoring tool provided by CATS Distributed Computing Group and NTS: status ucsc edu/bb The status of services on CATS web, mail, unix and other servers can be quickly determined from the display
Dictator character from George Orwell's famous novel, 1984, which depicts a future world where the citizens' behaviour is continually monitored via technology (see relevant excerpt from spy org)
From the character in George Orwell's novel, 1984, symbolising an omnipresent, seemingly benevolent figure, but in reality exerting oppressive control over individual lives by an authoritarian govt Big Brother can be a govt, a person, an employer, or a faceless computer database containing all the private bits & pieces of individuals' lives, with impersonal & uncontrollable power to dictate their fates, directly or indirectly
an authoritarian leader and invader of privacy
an older brother
an older brother an authoritarian leader and invader of privacy
{i} older brother

You look just like your older brother. - You look just like your big brother.

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Related Terms

big brothers
plural form of big brother
Big Brothers
a US organization to help boys, especially boys who have family problems. Each boy has his own Big Brother, who is a man who meets him regularly to give advice, listen to his problems, have fun together etc
the Big Brother
group of people that are in key positions under totalitarian rule, system that is intended for tracing and controlling the acts of the residents of a totalitarian government
big brother

    Hyphenation

    big broth·er

    Turkish pronunciation

    bîg brʌdhır

    Pronunciation

    /ˈbəg ˈbrəᴛʜər/ /ˈbɪɡ ˈbrʌðɜr/
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