Fourth Worldn.

Brit.

/ˌfɔːθ ˈwəːld/, U.S.

/ˈˌfɔrθ ˈwərld/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: fourth adj., world n.

Etymology: < fourth adj. + world n., after Third World n. In sense 4 after French quart monde fourth world, in the name of the Mouvement ATD (Aide à Toute Détresse) Quart Monde, an international non-governmental agency founded in 1957 by the French priest Joseph Wresinski (1917–88) to relieve poverty worldwide.

1. In various mythologies or sacred cosmologies.

a. A distant, mysterious, or otherworldly place, esp. one inhabited by magical or supernatural beings. In later use, gen.: a supernatural, fantastic, or imaginary realm.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > realm of imagination > [noun] > imaginary place

fairyc1330

rumbelow?1515

Hogs Norton?1565

fairyland1600

wonderland1790

other world1804

dreamland1832

Fourth World1833

cloudland1846

Loamshire1859

looking-glass land1871

looking-glass world1871

under-land1874

cloud-world1884

Speewah1890

Ruritania1894

cloud-cuckoo-land1899

cuckoo-land1916

fantasy world1920

Squaresville1956

la-la land1979

1833 C. S. Rafinesque in Atlantic Jrnl. & Friend of Knowledge 103 These African and Spanish Atlantes gave their name to the Atlantic Ocean and to the great Atlantis or America! called in the Hindu books Atala or Tala-tolo the fourth world where dwelt giants or powerful men.

1886 Amer. Naturalist 20 844 When the race came up from the fourth world to this, to escape the last flood, two very popular and much beloved persons were chosen to carry the sun and the moon.

1957 D. Athas Fourth World 31 When they were thirteen and fourteen..they created the Fourth World... They grew themselves into an imaginary world where their will was supreme over all.

1995 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 21 Jan. g1 The girls resolve to write a novel, and soon find themselves fashioning..a mythical ‘Fourth World’ medieval kingdom called Borovnia.

2000 Hindu (Nexis) 6 Feb. That's the realm of art, the realm of fantasy, imagination and so on. I call that the fourth world. I discovered that in the native American myth, the world of the Navajo.

b. The present world, or the human realm, regarded as a distinct cosmological era or plane.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] > the present world

this worldc950

Fourth World1931

1931 E. Heron-Allen Gods of Fourth World 17 The most popular and permanent grouping is that of the Five [Buddhas], directing the affairs of the Five Worlds (Kalpas), of which three are past and gone. We are now inhabiting the Fourth World.

1968 Man 3 508/1 In Newcomb's [Navaho] Tales the supernatural inhabitants of the Third World emerged into the Fourth World and dispersed.

1992 P. G. Allen Sacred Hoop (new ed.) 19 The Hopi see Spider Woman as Grandmother of the sun and as the great Medicine Power who sang the people into this fourth world we live in now.

2. A loose or notional confederation of territorial or political units without sovereign statehood, often consisting of established regions or peoples which have distinct cultural identity or partial administrative autonomy within a larger state; indigenous minorities living in or subject to another nation.

ΚΠ

1967 Resurgence Nov.–Dec. 19/2 Islands that go-it-alone make natural members of The Fourth World.

1974 G. Manuel & M. Posluns Fourth World Introd. 5 It was a Tanzanian diplomat who said to me, ‘When the Indian peoples come into their own, that will be the Fourth World.’ I do not think he meant that we would create nation-states like his own, but that, like Tanzania, the nation-state would learn to contain within itself many different cultures and life-ways.

1986 R. B. Morrison & C. R. Wilson Native Peoples xxvi. 536 George Manuel, Indian elder statesman, developed the concept of the Fourth World in a seminal book of that title. The idea refers to tribal peoples who have become incorporated into modern nation states.

1996 R. A. Griggs (title) The role of Fourth World nations and synchronous geopolitical factors in the breakdown of states.

3. A group of nations considered distinct because of common characteristics not shared by countries of the First, Second, or Third World. Now: spec. those countries and communities, esp. in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, considered to be the poorest and least developed of the Third World, typically heavily dependent on foreign economic aid and having very low per-capita GNP, and often as distinguished from wealthy neighbouring nations possessing oil resources.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > groups of countries > [noun] > undeveloped or having low level of development

developing world1908

rest1932

Third World1963

tiers monde1963

south1966

Fourth World1967

Global South1968

1967 J. D. B. Miller Politics of Third World p. xi It seems..reasonable to regard Latin America as something of a Fourth World, with characteristics of its own which entitle it to be studied in its own right and not forced to conform to whatever generalizations can be made about the Third.

1974 Economist 18 May 70/1 So dire is the condition of the poorest countries, so distinct are they in deprivation from all the rest, that..‘the fourth world’ became common currency in describing their condition.

1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 12 May 39/3 A disaster for developed countries, OPEC was an unmitigated tragedy for the abysmally poor nations of the ‘Fourth World’, those nations of Africa, Latin America, and Asia unblessed by oil or other riches.

1996 Times Union (Albany, N.Y.) (Nexis) 21 Apr. e1 A ‘fourth world’ has emerged, inhabited by more than 1 billion souls who survive on less than $400 dollars a year.

4. (A category of) people living in a relatively wealthy nation, yet in conditions of extreme deprivation or poverty, esp. an urban underclass; the phenomenon of poverty in wealthy nations.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun]

laga1616

raff1673

Panchama Bandham1800

lower working class1824

proletariat1852

mudsill1858

netherworld1889

underworld1899

subproletariat1918

underclass1918

lumpenproletariat1924

Fifth Estate1966

Fourth World1976

1976 L. Hamalian (title) The fourth world: the imprisoned, the poor, the sick, the elderly and underaged in America.

1979 Guardian 11 Oct. 12/5 The term Fourth World was invented by French priests and social workers, sponsored by a philanthropist, in the late 1950's, to describe the outcasts of the welfare state, the new lumpen proletariat of second-class workers who get the left-over jobs, who don't get welfare because they don't know how to apply, and whose children are rejected at school. Fourth World people are not migrants.

1990 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 20 June 3201/3 We call it the ‘Fourth World’, the phenomenon of Third-World poverty within the borders of a wealthy nation. It's a great tragedy.

1993 Community Devel. Jrnl. July 207 A combination of District and Regional Council's policies, industrial decline, and the embracing of popular capitalism..has ensured that the schemes in Glasgow have the highest levels of multiple deprivation of any other city in the UK and has created what is commonly referred to as the Fourth World.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	fourth world
释义	Fourth Worldn. Brit. /ˌfɔːθ ˈwəːld/, U.S. /ˈˌfɔrθ ˈwərld/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: fourth adj., world n. Etymology: < fourth adj. + world n., after Third World n. In sense 4 after French quart monde fourth world, in the name of the Mouvement ATD (Aide à Toute Détresse) Quart Monde, an international non-governmental agency founded in 1957 by the French priest Joseph Wresinski (1917–88) to relieve poverty worldwide. 1. In various mythologies or sacred cosmologies. a. A distant, mysterious, or otherworldly place, esp. one inhabited by magical or supernatural beings. In later use, gen.: a supernatural, fantastic, or imaginary realm. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > realm of imagination > [noun] > imaginary place fairyc1330 rumbelow?1515 Hogs Norton?1565 fairyland1600 wonderland1790 other world1804 dreamland1832 Fourth World1833 cloudland1846 Loamshire1859 looking-glass land1871 looking-glass world1871 under-land1874 cloud-world1884 Speewah1890 Ruritania1894 cloud-cuckoo-land1899 cuckoo-land1916 fantasy world1920 Squaresville1956 la-la land1979 1833 C. S. Rafinesque in Atlantic Jrnl. & Friend of Knowledge 103 These African and Spanish Atlantes gave their name to the Atlantic Ocean and to the great Atlantis or America! called in the Hindu books Atala or Tala-tolo the fourth world where dwelt giants or powerful men. 1886 Amer. Naturalist 20 844 When the race came up from the fourth world to this, to escape the last flood, two very popular and much beloved persons were chosen to carry the sun and the moon. 1957 D. Athas Fourth World 31 When they were thirteen and fourteen..they created the Fourth World... They grew themselves into an imaginary world where their will was supreme over all. 1995 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 21 Jan. g1 The girls resolve to write a novel, and soon find themselves fashioning..a mythical ‘Fourth World’ medieval kingdom called Borovnia. 2000 Hindu (Nexis) 6 Feb. That's the realm of art, the realm of fantasy, imagination and so on. I call that the fourth world. I discovered that in the native American myth, the world of the Navajo. b. The present world, or the human realm, regarded as a distinct cosmological era or plane. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] > the present world this worldc950 Fourth World1931 1931 E. Heron-Allen Gods of Fourth World 17 The most popular and permanent grouping is that of the Five [Buddhas], directing the affairs of the Five Worlds (Kalpas), of which three are past and gone. We are now inhabiting the Fourth World. 1968 Man 3 508/1 In Newcomb's [Navaho] Tales the supernatural inhabitants of the Third World emerged into the Fourth World and dispersed. 1992 P. G. Allen Sacred Hoop (new ed.) 19 The Hopi see Spider Woman as Grandmother of the sun and as the great Medicine Power who sang the people into this fourth world we live in now. 2. A loose or notional confederation of territorial or political units without sovereign statehood, often consisting of established regions or peoples which have distinct cultural identity or partial administrative autonomy within a larger state; indigenous minorities living in or subject to another nation. ΚΠ 1967 Resurgence Nov.–Dec. 19/2 Islands that go-it-alone make natural members of The Fourth World. 1974 G. Manuel & M. Posluns Fourth World Introd. 5 It was a Tanzanian diplomat who said to me, ‘When the Indian peoples come into their own, that will be the Fourth World.’ I do not think he meant that we would create nation-states like his own, but that, like Tanzania, the nation-state would learn to contain within itself many different cultures and life-ways. 1986 R. B. Morrison & C. R. Wilson Native Peoples xxvi. 536 George Manuel, Indian elder statesman, developed the concept of the Fourth World in a seminal book of that title. The idea refers to tribal peoples who have become incorporated into modern nation states. 1996 R. A. Griggs (title) The role of Fourth World nations and synchronous geopolitical factors in the breakdown of states. 3. A group of nations considered distinct because of common characteristics not shared by countries of the First, Second, or Third World. Now: spec. those countries and communities, esp. in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, considered to be the poorest and least developed of the Third World, typically heavily dependent on foreign economic aid and having very low per-capita GNP, and often as distinguished from wealthy neighbouring nations possessing oil resources. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > groups of countries > [noun] > undeveloped or having low level of development developing world1908 rest1932 Third World1963 tiers monde1963 south1966 Fourth World1967 Global South1968 1967 J. D. B. Miller Politics of Third World p. xi It seems..reasonable to regard Latin America as something of a Fourth World, with characteristics of its own which entitle it to be studied in its own right and not forced to conform to whatever generalizations can be made about the Third. 1974 Economist 18 May 70/1 So dire is the condition of the poorest countries, so distinct are they in deprivation from all the rest, that..‘the fourth world’ became common currency in describing their condition. 1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 12 May 39/3 A disaster for developed countries, OPEC was an unmitigated tragedy for the abysmally poor nations of the ‘Fourth World’, those nations of Africa, Latin America, and Asia unblessed by oil or other riches. 1996 Times Union (Albany, N.Y.) (Nexis) 21 Apr. e1 A ‘fourth world’ has emerged, inhabited by more than 1 billion souls who survive on less than $400 dollars a year. 4. (A category of) people living in a relatively wealthy nation, yet in conditions of extreme deprivation or poverty, esp. an urban underclass; the phenomenon of poverty in wealthy nations. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] laga1616 raff1673 Panchama Bandham1800 lower working class1824 proletariat1852 mudsill1858 netherworld1889 underworld1899 subproletariat1918 underclass1918 lumpenproletariat1924 Fifth Estate1966 Fourth World1976 1976 L. Hamalian (title) The fourth world: the imprisoned, the poor, the sick, the elderly and underaged in America. 1979 Guardian 11 Oct. 12/5 The term Fourth World was invented by French priests and social workers, sponsored by a philanthropist, in the late 1950's, to describe the outcasts of the welfare state, the new lumpen proletariat of second-class workers who get the left-over jobs, who don't get welfare because they don't know how to apply, and whose children are rejected at school. Fourth World people are not migrants. 1990 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 20 June 3201/3 We call it the ‘Fourth World’, the phenomenon of Third-World poverty within the borders of a wealthy nation. It's a great tragedy. 1993 Community Devel. Jrnl. July 207 A combination of District and Regional Council's policies, industrial decline, and the embracing of popular capitalism..has ensured that the schemes in Glasgow have the highest levels of multiple deprivation of any other city in the UK and has created what is commonly referred to as the Fourth World. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1833
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