Usually means: Older sibling, often protective, authoritative.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word big brother:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. big brother: Merriam-Webster
  2. Big Brother: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. big brother: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Big Brother: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Big Brother, big brother: Vocabulary.com
  6. Big-Brother, big-brother: Wordnik
  7. Big Brother, Big brother: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Big Brother, big brother: Wiktionary
  9. big brother: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. big brother: Infoplease Dictionary
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  12. big brother: Rhymezone
  13. big brother: FreeDictionary.org
  14. big brother: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. big brother: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. Big Brother (UK TV series): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. big brother: Dictionary.com
  18. Big Brother: Online Etymology Dictionary
  19. big brother: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. big brother: Netlingo
  2. Big Brother: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. big brother: A Word A Day
  3. Big Brother: Idioms
  4. big brother: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Big brother)

▸ noun:  Unwarranted, invasive, and discreet surveillance, especially of a people by its government
▸ noun:  Any omnipresent figurehead representing oppressive control
▸ noun:  (often childish) A sibling's older brother.
▸ noun:  (figurative) Something that is bigger in comparison.
▸ noun:  (figurative) early mobile phones (in China)
▸ noun:  Alternative form of Big Brother [Unwarranted, invasive, and discreet surveillance, especially of a people by its government]

Similar:
snooping, surveillence, meddling, rubbernecking, spookocracy, malgovernment, harassment, spycatching, invasion of privacy, sneakery, more...

Types:
government, police, military, school, parents, family, friends, more...

Phrases:
Big Brother and the Holding Company, Big Brother Naija, Pinoy Big Brother, Big Brother Canada, Ultimate Big Brother, more...

Adjectives:
grand, aval, grandfatherly, poppy, pappy, gammy, granny, sib, avunculate, novercal, grandpaternal
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Similar:
snooping, surveillence, meddling, rubbernecking, spookocracy, malgovernment, harassment, spycatching, invasion of privacy, sneakery, more...

Types:
government, police, military, school, parents, family, friends, more...

Phrases:
Big Brother and the Holding Company, Big Brother Naija, Pinoy Big Brother, Big Brother Canada, Ultimate Big Brother, Big Brother Recordings, Big Brother UK TV Theme, Big Brother Brasil, more...

Adjectives:
grand, aval, grandfatherly, poppy, pappy, gammy, granny, sib, avunculate, novercal, grandpaternal



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