Oceanian

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone from Oceania (geographical region or continent).
  2. Someone from the fictional nation of Oceania in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).
    — In order to ensure that the Oceanians do get excited about Big Brother—displace, that is, eroticism from its natural object, another individual, to the State—the Party attempts in every way “to remove all pleasure from the sex act. . . . The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party. Sexual intercourse was to be looked on as a slightly disgusting operation, like having an enema” (p. 57).
形容词 adj.
  1. From or relating to Oceania (geographical region or continent). not-comparable
  2. From or relating to the fictional nation of Oceania in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). not-comparable
    — Although the proles are on the fringe both of Oceanian society and of the action, it is their values which provide the only warmth in the novel.

词形变化

Oceanians plural

词汇关系

近义词
Oceanian
上位词
inhabitant person
下位词
Australian Cook Islander Fijian Kiribatian Marshall Islander Micronesian Nauruan New Zealander Niuean Palauan Papua New Guinean Papuan Samoan Solomon Islander Tahitian Tokelauan Tongan Tuvaluan Vanuatuan
衍生词
Oceanianism Oceanianist

词源

词源 1
From Oceania + -an.
(nation): This term is not used in the novel itself.
词源 2
From Oceania + -an.
(nation): This term is not used in the novel itself.
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