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ビッグブラザー； ビッグ・ブラザー
1. [n]
▶ big brother
▶ elder brother
2. [n]
《from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four》
▶ Big Brother
▶ dictator
▶ despot



History:
3. A 2018-07-25 23:26:34  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
2. A* 2018-07-25 21:40:54  Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
  Refs: 
gg5, daijs, wiki

someone once got viscerally angry at me for writing that book title as numerals, which as i take it is not accepted by literature pedants
  Comments: 
i think "Big Brother" should be added as a gloss. daijisen has this as meaning the state (not necessarily a dictator), which is how it is normally used in english
  Diff: 
@@ -17 +17,2 @@
-<s_inf>from Orwell's 1984</s_inf>
+<s_inf>from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four</s_inf>
+<gloss>Big Brother</gloss>
1. A* 2018-07-25 05:02:28  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs: 
Daijr, GG5

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