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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--fourth estate This week's theme: ordinal words. fourth estate (forth i-STAYT) noun Journalistic profession, the press. [Supposedly, a power other than the three estates (the Lords Spiritual, the Lords Temporal, and the House of Commons) in UK.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "At 8:20, an e-mail was sent to the fourth estate, inviting journalists to a press conference which was to be held just 40 minutes later." O'Leary Has His Eyes on the Prize; The Sunday Business Post (Dublin, Ireland); Oct 8, 2006. X-Bonus That wretched alchemist called money can turn a man's heart into a stone! -Mehmet Murat Ildan, writer (1965- )

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