Huxley
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- proper noun
- /ˈhʌksli/
- Dr. Huxley, you seem to be under some misapprehension.
- Aldous Huxley
- Huxley's Brave New World
- Huxley's argument
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- This kind of language, I mean, that's the language of Huxley's world state that that is not the language of, of Orwell's Big Brother.
- And I feel like a similar thing is happening in the realm of psychedelics where it was Leary and Huxley.
- And as Elizabeth had feared, Huxley doesn't come through.
- And they said Aldous Huxley, which again was false.
- And Aldous Huxley, his friend, came up with his own sort of matches.
- And you know who agrees is Aldous Huxley?
- I mean, there was, Aldous Huxley wrote his novel Brave New World and started out with anthrax bombs.
- You're in a land in which the words Allah Aldous Huxley have become the opposite of what they were intended to, to signify or to refer to.
Examples
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Framed pictures of Emmanuel Swedenborg, William Blake, and Aldous Huxley hang between the windows.
Fiction book (2000) -
In a recent seminar, we discussed the influence of Huxley's ideas on modern literature.
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In the words of our friend Mr. Huxley: "Experience is not what happens to a man.
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I'm looking for a man by the name of Dr. Huxley.
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I take it you've all read the Huxley novel that I assigned more than three weeks ago.
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I am also an unabashed Huxley fan, as illustrated by numerous essays in this series.
Academic text (1995) -
There is no need to expatiate upon the similar function that sexual indulgence performs in Huxley's Brave New World.
Academic text (1999) -
Aldous Huxley is famous for his novel 'Brave New World', which explores dystopian themes.
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Many students study Huxley to understand his critique of technological progress in society.
Synonyms
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English writer who wrote Brave New World and wrote about society and people
Surface Forms
Etymology
The name Huxley comes from an old English place name and probably meant 'Hux's clearing'; the Hux part is a person's name and the -ley part means 'clearing' or 'meadow', like in Oakley. That's why Huxley is a family or place name, used by people such as Aldous Huxley.