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/bɪg brˈəðər/ Listen

Big brother

noun

An authoritarian leader and invader of privacy.

An older brother.

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"Big brother" Quotes from Famous Books

... softly. "My big Brother caught a burglar once, and kept the kit for a remembrance. ...

— The Brass Bowl • Louis Joseph Vance

... much as you please, provided I am the big brother and you the little; provided society, our common mother, honors my primogeniture and my services by doubling my portion. You will provide for my wants, you say, in proportion to your resources. I intend, on the contrary, that such provision shall be in proportion to ...

— The Philosophy of Misery • Joseph-Pierre Proudhon

... much so as a moss-rose. But you'll see. I will be besieged the next few days by my acquaintances for an introduction, and my account of you will make them wild. I shall be, however, a very dragon of a big brother, and won't let one of them come near you who is not a saint—that is, as far as I am a judge ...

— A Day Of Fate • E. P. Roe

... day she had brought him home with her from his boarding-school, a sensitive, lonely lad of fourteen, he had been like a big brother to her children; at first their guardian playfellow, sharing with them his lore of field and wood and stream; later their tutor, during the months when he was not absent at the seminary which the old rector of the parish had ...

— Kildares of Storm • Eleanor Mercein Kelly

Words linked to "Big brother" : blood brother, brother, dictator, authoritarian