FOURTH ESTATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fourth estate mean? 

• FOURTH ESTATE (noun)
  The noun FOURTH ESTATE has 1 sense:

1. the press, including journalists, newspaper writers, photographers

  Familiarity information: FOURTH ESTATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOURTH ESTATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The press, including journalists, newspaper writers, photographers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("fourth estate" is a kind of...):

estate; estate of the realm; the three estates (a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights)