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noun
A screen for broadcasting television or similar media, especially one that shows propaganda and records or spies on the user.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: literature, media, publishing, science-fiction
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History
From tele- + screen, from television. Popularized by George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), in which they are used for government surveillance of citizens.
Across languages
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