Definitions for Third World
third world

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1. Third Worldnoun

   underdeveloped and developing countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America collectively

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1. Third Worldnoun

   Those countries not aligned with the west or the east during the Cold War.

2. Third Worldnoun

   The developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

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1. Third World

   The term Third World arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO, or the Communist Bloc. This terminology provided a way of broadly categorizing the nations of the Earth into three groups based on social, political, and economic divisions. The Third World was normally seen to include many countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, which had a colonial past. It was also sometimes taken as synonymous with countries in the Non-Aligned Movement. In the so-called dependency theory of thinkers like Raul Prebisch, Theotonio dos Santos, and Andre Gunder Frank, the Third World has also been connected to the world economic division as "periphery" countries in the world system that is dominated by the "core" countries. Due to the complex history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed upon definition of the Third World. Some countries in the Communist Bloc, such as Cuba, were often regarded as "Third World". A history of colonialism was often assumed to be a common part of the "Third World," yet the category usually included countries with a history of their own imperialism, such as Turkey and China, and often excluded European countries with a history of colonial subordination, such as Ireland and Poland. Because many Third World countries" were extremely poor, and non-industrialized, it became a stereotype to refer to poor countries as "third world countries," yet the "Third World" term is also often taken to include Newly Industrialized Countries like India, Brazil or China. Historically, some European countries were part of the non-aligned movement and a few were and are very prosperous, including Switzerland and Austria.

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How to pronounce Third World?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Third World in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Third World in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Third World in a Sentence

1. John Mica:

   We're running a Soviet-style train system and a third-world country operation.

2. Geraldo Rivera:

   All you can do with this defund the police nonsense is ignore the fact that you are essentially assigning a third-world existence to a huge segment of the population all in the name of anti-racism.

3. Albert Einstein:

   I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with -- stone clubs.

4. Fulton County:

   It seemed like we were descending into this third-world mentality, i never expected that out of this country.

5. Jean Armenta:

   We are very poor. It's like living in a third world. No help from the government, no help from the tribe, a lot of us don't have electricity or running water.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Third World
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Third_World
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Third World