Fourth World

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Collectively, peoples living nomadic, pastoral, hunter-gatherer or other ways of life outside the modern industrial norm.
  2. Synonym of Túwaquachi.
  3. A notional standard of living or level of development lower than that in the stereotyped Third World.

Word forms

Fourth World the Fourth World

Etymology

After First World, Second World, and Third World.

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