Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The least-developed and poorest nations of the Third World, especially those in Africa and Asia that lack mineral wealth.
- noun The collection of peoples, especially ethnic and religious minorities, that lack widespread recognition as nations or are subject to economic or political discrimination.
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- proper noun Collectively,
peoples livingnomadic ,pastoral ,hunter-gatherer or other ways of life outside the modernindustrial norm .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Jack Kirby's Fourth World - 180 points 2 first place votes
The Top 100 Comic Book Runs Master List | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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Jack Kirby’s Fourth World †180 points 2 first place votes
Top 100 Comic Book Runs #15-13 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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It also helps the bizarre history of Kirby's Fourth World fits much better with human history as we know it as a result of this retcon.
Comics for 30 January Fred Perry 2008
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It also helps the bizarre history of Kirby's Fourth World fits much better with human history as we know it as a result of this retcon.
Archive 2008-02-01 Fred Perry 2008
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Jack Kirby's Fourth World - 180 points 2 first place votes
Top 100 Comic Book Runs #50-46 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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With 9 to go I can safel say only 3 of my picks made it, and one of those three was Kirbys Mr. Miracle lumped in with the Fourth World.
Top 100 Comic Book Runs #12-10 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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Of Jack's Fourth World line of comics, Mister Miracle would prove to be the most popular, lasting a good seven issues longer than its compatriots New Gods or Forever People.
365 Reasons to Love Comics #347 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007
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They've been telling us to look to the sky's whenever Fourth World characters were brought up for a long time now.
Week 6: Sent Forth from the Power Douglas Wolk 2006
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Free to the People of the Fourth World and other interested parties.
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Free to the People of the Fourth World and other interested parties.
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