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Definition of Third World in English: Third Worldnoun usually the Third WorldThe developing countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. 第三世界，发展中国家 levels of literacy have risen in the Third World as modifier measures to reduce Third World debt Example sentencesExamples - The Green Party would be open to trade rules that actually do help people in the Third World.
- The band support campaigns against Third World debt and in defence of asylum seekers.
- The global market took the feeding tube out of the Third World a long time ago.
- The result of free trade policies is the rise of food prices in the Third World.
- Instead of focusing on the needs of the poor in the Third World they enforce the writ of western corporations.
- Of more interest to socialists are the agency's activities in the Third World.
- Few people knew more about Africa or the Third World in general than he did.
- When the leaders of the most powerful countries meet, they often talk of the poverty of the Third World.
- This is most obvious in Africa, the only Third World continent to have actually declined.
- It is really important to take every opportunity to develop links with activists in the Third World.
- This was not some outback post in the Third World, this was inner city London.
- He called on Winchester to cut its ties and develop twinning arrangements with towns in the Third World.
- Many people in the Third World think in the developed world there are no problems.
- Poverty has widely been regarded as characterizing the Third World, and it has a gendered face.
- It is always good to hear from people who are outraged by the suffering of the Third World.
- They are presently in a very weak position, morally and politically, on the issue of Third World debt.
- This has since burgeoned so that the Union provides aid for countries throughout the Third World.
- That is the case with regard to many states in the Third World, especially sub-Saharan Africa.
- Mike's account of Western capitalism had its corollary in his view of what was happening in the Third World.
- Let that money be used to save the lives of people across the Third World.
OriginFirst applied in the 1950s by French commentators who used tiers monde to distinguish the developing countries from the capitalist and Communist blocs. world from Old English: The ancient root of world meant ‘age or life of man’. The first part is the same as were- in werewolf (see wolf)—it means ‘man’—and the second part is related to old. The Anglo-Saxons first used world to mean ‘human existence, life on earth’ as opposed to future life in heaven or hell. America was first called the New World in 1555, and Europe, Asia, and Africa the Old World at the end of that century. Olde worlde is a ‘fake’ antiquated spelling for old-fashioned things intended to be quaint and attractive, and dates only from the 1920s. The developing countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America were initially known as the Third World in the 1950s by French writers who used tiers monde, ‘third world’, to distinguish the developing countries from the capitalist and Communist blocs. The first use in English came in 1963. The best of all worlds or of all possible worlds is from Candide (1759) by the French writer Voltaire. It is a translation of a statement by the ever-optimistic Pangloss, ‘Everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds’. The character of Pangloss, who remained constantly cheerful despite all the disasters that happened to him and his travelling companions, is a satire on the views of the German philosopher Leibniz, who believed this philosophy. See also optimism, oyster, whim, wife
Definition of Third World in US English: Third WorldnounˈˌTHərd ˈwərldˈˌθərd ˈwərld usually the Third WorldThe developing countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. 第三世界，发展中国家 levels of literacy have risen in the Third World as modifier measures to reduce Third World debt Example sentencesExamples - This is most obvious in Africa, the only Third World continent to have actually declined.
- Many people in the Third World think in the developed world there are no problems.
- That is the case with regard to many states in the Third World, especially sub-Saharan Africa.
- It is always good to hear from people who are outraged by the suffering of the Third World.
- This was not some outback post in the Third World, this was inner city London.
- Few people knew more about Africa or the Third World in general than he did.
- Of more interest to socialists are the agency's activities in the Third World.
- They are presently in a very weak position, morally and politically, on the issue of Third World debt.
- He called on Winchester to cut its ties and develop twinning arrangements with towns in the Third World.
- Let that money be used to save the lives of people across the Third World.
- Mike's account of Western capitalism had its corollary in his view of what was happening in the Third World.
- When the leaders of the most powerful countries meet, they often talk of the poverty of the Third World.
- The global market took the feeding tube out of the Third World a long time ago.
- Poverty has widely been regarded as characterizing the Third World, and it has a gendered face.
- Instead of focusing on the needs of the poor in the Third World they enforce the writ of western corporations.
- It is really important to take every opportunity to develop links with activists in the Third World.
- The Green Party would be open to trade rules that actually do help people in the Third World.
- The result of free trade policies is the rise of food prices in the Third World.
- The band support campaigns against Third World debt and in defence of asylum seekers.
- This has since burgeoned so that the Union provides aid for countries throughout the Third World.
OriginFirst applied in the 1950s by French commentators who used tiers monde to distinguish the developing countries from the capitalist and Communist blocs. |