THIRD WORLD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Third World mean? 

• THIRD WORLD (noun)
  The noun THIRD WORLD has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: THIRD WORLD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THIRD WORLD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Third World" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)