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Princeton's WordNet

  1. third estate, Commonsnoun

    the common people

Wiktionary

  1. third estatenoun

    The caste of commoners in France prior to 1789.

  2. third estatenoun

    The commoners, collectively, in any society.

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  1. third estate

    The Third Estate refers to the commoners or the majority of the population in society, especially in Europe during the Ancien Régime, which was the socio-political system in place before the French Revolution. It comprised everyone who was not part of the first two estates, the clergy (First Estate) and the nobility (Second Estate). Therefore, the Third Estate included everyone from peasants to merchants, laborers, and non-noble city dwellers.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of third estate in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of third estate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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