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Meaning of "newspeak" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD NEWSPEAK

From 1984, a novel by George Orwell.
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PRONUNCIATION OF NEWSPEAK

newspeak  [ˈnjuːˌspiːk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NEWSPEAK

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Newspeak is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES NEWSPEAK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Newspeak

Newspeak is the fictional language in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, written by George Orwell. It is a controlled language created by the totalitarian state as a tool to limit freedom of thought, and concepts that pose a threat to the regime such as freedom, self-expression, individuality, and peace. Any form of thought alternative to the party’s construct is classified as a "thoughtcrime". Newspeak is explained in chapters 4 and 5 of Nineteen Eighty-Four, and in an appendix to the book. The language follows, for the most part, the same grammatical rules as English, but has a much more limiting, and constantly shifting vocabulary. Any synonyms or antonyms, along with undesirable concepts are eradicated. The goal is for everyone to be speaking this language by the year 2050. In the mean time, Oldspeak is still spoken among the Proles—the working-class citizens of Oceania. Orwell was inspired to invent Newspeak by the constructed language Basic English, which he promoted from 1942 to 1944 before emphatically rejecting it in his essay "Politics and the English Language".

Definition of newspeak in the English dictionary

The definition of newspeak in the dictionary is the language of bureaucrats and politicians, regarded as deliberately ambiguous and misleading.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NEWSPEAK


adspeak
ˈædspiːk
bespeak
bɪˈspiːk
diplospeak
ˈdɪpləʊˌspiːk
doublespeak
ˈdʌbəlˌspiːk
forespeak
fɔːˈspiːk
forspeak
fɔːˈspiːk
geekspeak
ˈɡiːkˌspiːk
greenspeak
ˈɡriːnˌspiːk
leetspeak
ˈliːtˌspiːk
mellowspeak
ˈmeləʊˌspiːk
misspeak
ˌmɪsˈspiːk
netspeak
ˈnɛtˌspiːk
outspeak
ˌaʊtˈspiːk
seaspeak
ˈsiːˌspiːk
speak
spiːk
spec.
spiːk
technospeak
ˈtɛknəʊˌspiːk
unbespeak
ˌʌnbɪˈspiːk
unspeak
ʌnˈspiːk
upspeak
ʌpˈspiːk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NEWSPEAK

newspaper
newspaper clipping
newspaper cutting
newspaper office
newspaper photographer
newspaper report
newspaperdom
newspaperism
newspaperman
newspapermen
newspaperwoman
newspaperwomen
newsperson
newsprint
newsreader
newsreel
newsroom
newsstand
newstrade
newswire

WORDS THAT END LIKE NEWSPEAK

afterpeak
apeak
break
forepeak
freak
jailbreak
leak
losing streak
nonpeak
off-peak
outbreak
peak
pyramidal peak
sneak
so to speak
steak
streak
teak
weak
widow´s peak

Synonyms and antonyms of newspeak in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «newspeak» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NEWSPEAK

Find out the translation of newspeak to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of newspeak from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «newspeak» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

新语
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

neolengua
570 millions of speakers

English

newspeak
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

newspeak
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اللغة المخادعة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

новояз
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

newspeak
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

newspeak
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

novlangue
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Surat khabar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Neusprech
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ニュースピーク
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

newspeak
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kabar
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Tân Ngôn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

செய்திப்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

न्यूजईक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

newspeak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

politichese
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nowomowa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

новояз
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Newspeak
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πολιτική που φέρνει
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

newspeak
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nyspråk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

newspeak
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of newspeak

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NEWSPEAK»

The term «newspeak» is regularly used and occupies the 65.636 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of newspeak
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «newspeak».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NEWSPEAK» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «newspeak» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «newspeak» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about newspeak

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NEWSPEAK»

Discover the use of newspeak in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to newspeak and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics
An archive-based history of Soviet cybernetics that focuses on the interplay of scientific, economic, and political discourses in the Soviet Union and Russia from the late 1940s through the 1990s.
Slava Gerovitch, 2004
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Newspeak in the 21st Century
For almost 10 years, Media Lens has encouraged thousands of readers to email senior editors and journalists, challenging them to account for their distorted reporting on climate change, the Palestine-Israel conflict, the Iraq war and much ...
David Edwards, David Cromwell, 2009
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1984
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George Orwell, 2004
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Newspeak: British art now
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, Oct. 25 2009-Jan. 17, 2010, and the Saatchi Gallery, London, June 2010.
Patricia Ellis, Saatchi Gallery, Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia), 2010
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Newspeak: A Dictionary of Jargon: A Dictionary of Jargon
For this dictionary, first published in1984, Jonathon Green compiled nearly 8, 000 entries – selected from the slangs and specific vocabularies of trades, professions and interests – covering such areas as the world of entertainment, ...
Jonathon Green, 2013
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The Meaning of Democracy and the Vulnerability of ...
In his novel 1984, written in 1948, George Orwell focused on the corruption of language associated with the development of what he called "Newspeak." In that book, Big Brother was an obvious reference, I have presumed, to Joseph Stalin, ...
Vincent Ostrom, 1997
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1984
Appendix THE PRINCIPLES OF NEWSPEAK Newspeak was the official language of Oceania and had been devised to meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc, or English Socialism. In the year 1984 there was not as yet anyone who used ...
George Orwell, 1983
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The New American Newspeak Dictionary
In order to allow you to understand Pundits, Newscasters, Newsreaders, Politicians, Bureaucrats, Mandarins, Officials, your Government, Neo-Cons And assorted Newspeak users.
Adrian Krieg, 2005
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American newspeak: the mangling of meaning for power and profit
This collection of doubletalk by America's best and brightest, painstakingly scavenged from the crevices of our media, contains countless gems of mangled meaning spewed out by the spin doctors of the emerging new world order.
Wayne Grytting, 2002
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The Orwell Conundrum: A Cry of Despair Or Faith in the ...
Chapter 16 The Thematic Function of Newspeak: The Reversal of Tragic Irony into the Militant Wit of Satire — Concluding Remarks The structural reversal from tragic irony to the militant wit of the satire leads us to the only kind of catharsis ...
Erika Gottlieb, 1992

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NEWSPEAK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term newspeak is used in the context of the following news items.
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Thanks to my smartphone, I may never leave home again
The delivery staff are called “ninjas,” a nice piece of human relations newspeak redolent of Subway's famous “sandwich artists,” fast food ... «Boston Globe, Jul 15»
2
Tony Nominee Lauren Worsham to Lead Cast of Dog Days
They will be accompanied by David T. Little's chamber ensemble NEWSPEAK, along with special guests. The world premiere of Dog Days was ... «TheaterMania.com, Jul 15»
3
Freedom Of Speech: The Key Battleground Of The Next Decade
In conversation one routinely sees normally articulate people stumbling, as they struggle to find acceptable Newspeak terminology to refer to ... «Breitbart News, Jul 15»
4
Breakfast links: Rides for all
Orwell called it "newspeak." I don't think your are correct about the taxes. The tax agencies use the term "death tax", to refer collectively to two ... «Greater Greater Washington, Jul 15»
5
Column One The news in brief
Some kinds of discrimination, to lapse into newspeak, are more equal than others. There's a better way to determine college admissions. «Arkansas Online, Jul 15»
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The news in brief
Some kinds of discrimination, to lapse into newspeak, are more equal than others. There's a better way to determine college admissions. «NWAOnline, Jul 15»
7
New Font Automatically Censors 'Spook Words' Monitored by the NSA
“He wrote about a new form of language called “Newspeak” that will be adopted to prevent radical thinking,” explained Kozole. Quoting Orwell ... «Nextgov, Jul 15»
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I've only got one word for you portmanteau addicts
And that is the future of portmanteauing: a soundless newspeak invented in copy rooms, words crammed into one another again and then once ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
9
Avignon's nude direction for Shakespeare
He has a unique way with language, stretching and twisting it into a kind of “newspeak” that is the opposite of Orwell's: instead of shrinking, ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
10
Vile Bodies: The Episcopal Church's General Conventions
And so they went ahead and approved the new, tin-eared, newspeak version, which even someone with a little learning can see is a handful of ... «Daily Caller, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Newspeak [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/newspeak>. Apr 2024 ».
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