Definitions for fourth estate
fourth es·tate

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fourth estatenoun

   the press, including journalists, newspaper writers, photographers

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. fourth estatenoun

   A hypothetical fourth class of civic subjects, or fourth body (in Britain, after the Crown, and the two Houses of Parliament) which governed legislation.

2. fourth estatenoun

   Journalism or journalists considered as a group; the Press.

3. Etymology: The three (in England) estates were originally the three classes of people who could participate in government, either directly or by electing representatives – originally the clergy, barons/knights, and the commons (though they changed over time). Later the "three estates" were misunderstood as being the three governmental powers necessary for legislation: the Crown, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons; from there, the idea of a "fourth estate" was often used in satirical or jocular expressions, before developing a fixed association with the Press.

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1. fourth estate

   The fourth estate is a term that refers to the press or journalism, both in the context of print and broadcast media. The term is used to highlight the crucial role and influence of the press in society as a significant force or institution that can influence public opinion, hold those in power accountable, and facilitate the free flow of information. It is called the fourth estate as it operates alongside the traditional three “estates” of political power: the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners (later redefined as the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary).

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1. Fourth Estate

   The Fourth Estate is a societal or political force or institution whose influence is not consistently or officially recognized. "Fourth Estate" most commonly refers to the news media; especially print journalism or "The Press". Thomas Carlyle attributed the origin of the term to Edmund Burke, who used it in a parliamentary debate in 1787 on the opening up of Press reporting of the House of Commons of Great Britain. Earlier writers have applied the term to lawyers, to the British queens consort, and to the proletariat. The term makes implicit reference to the earlier division of the three Estates of the Realm.

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1. Fourth Estate

   the daily press, so called by Edmund Burke, pointing, in the House of Commons, to the reporters' gallery.

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Etymology and OriginsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fourth Estate

   The Press. Edward Burke referred to the Reporters’ Gallery as more powerful than the three great estates of the realm--viz. the Lords Spiritual, the Lords Temporal, and the Commons.

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1. • Estate Of The Realm

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of fourth estate in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of fourth estate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of fourth estate in a Sentence

1. Gene Fowler:

   News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

2. Liz Garbus:

   It literally flies in the face of criticism of 'fake news' when you see how rigorous they are before anything ends up in that newspaper, the Fourth Estate.

3. Liz Garbus:

   I'm the daughter of a first amendment lawyer. For me, it's called the fourth estate for a reason. I saw that these attacks on the free press were going to continue and that this newspaper was going to be a particular target, there are fewer and fewer institutions that can do rigorous, investigative journalism, and the Times is one of them.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=fourth estate
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=fourth estate
5. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#FourthEstate
6. ^ Etymology and Origins
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/54657/pg54657-images.html#:~:text=fourth estate