third+estate
21Third World — 1963, from Fr. tiers monde, formulated 1952 by A. Sauvy on model of the third estate (Fr. tiers état) of Revolutionary France; his first world (The West) and second world (the Soviet bloc) never caught on …
22the third estate — the third order or class in a country or society, comprising the common people. → third …
23Third World — For other uses, see Third World (disambiguation). See also: Three Worlds Theory The three worlds as they were separated during the Cold War era, each with its respective allies as of the period between 30 April 1975 (the fall of Saigon) and 23… …
24estate — /i stayt /, n., v., estated, estating. n. 1. a piece of landed property, esp. one of large extent with an elaborate house on it: to have an estate in the country. 2. Law. a. property or possessions. b. the legal position or status of an owner,… …
25third — thirdly, adv. /therrd/, adj. 1. next after the second; being the ordinal number for three. 2. being one of three equal parts. 3. Auto. of, pertaining to, or operating at the gear transmission ratio at which the drive shaft speed is greater than… …
26estate — A social stratum to which are attached specific rights and duties sustained by the force of legal sanction. The most obvious examples are the peasants, serfs, burghers, clergy, and nobility of the post feudal states of continental Europe. For… …
27estate of the realm — noun a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights • Syn: ↑estate, ↑the three estates • Regions:… …
28third — ordinal number 1》 constituting number three in a sequence; 3rd. 2》 (a third/one third) each of three equal parts into which something is or may be divided. 3》 Music an interval spanning three consecutive notes in a diatonic scale, e.g. C to E… …
29Third World — By analogy with the ‘third estate’ in the French Revolution, a group of states independent of the two main camps in the Cold War. The term was originally used in the late 1940s to denote a potentially neutral bloc in Europe, but from the early… …
30estate — es·tate /i stāt/ n [Anglo French estat, literally, state, condition, from Old French, from Latin status, from stare to stand] 1: the interest of a particular degree, nature, quality, or extent that one has in land or other property compare fee;… …
