1. Third World - Adjective
2. Third World - Proper noun
(historical, politics) Those countries not aligned with the west or the east during the Cold War.
(sometimes derogatory) The developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Antonym: First World
Our district has many immigrants from Third World countries
(attributive, derogatory, informal) Any developing country, or a country lacking the perceived rudiments of civilization.
third world
Alternative letter-case form of Third World
third-world (comparative more third-world, superlative most third-world)
Of or from the Third World.
Third-World
Alternative spelling of third-world
third-world
There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in. Gerald Durrell
The third world is not a reality, but an ideology. Hannah Arendt
You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields. Saddam Hussein
Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World. Buchi Emecheta
Look at what has happened to Miami. It has become a Third World country. You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you're in the United States of America. You would certainly say you're in a Third World country. Tom Tancredo
There is a tendency to throw computers at third world problems, which I think is often a distraction. Putting computers in the schools is great, but it may be more important to put teachers in the schools. Terry Winograd