First Worldn.adj.

Brit.

/ˌfəːst ˈwəːld/, U.S.

/ˈˌfərst ˈwər(ə)ld/ (in sense B.)Brit.

/ˈfəːst wəːld/, U.S.

/ˈfərst ˌwər(ə)ld/

Forms: see first adj., adv., and n.² and world n.; also with lower-case initials.

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

Etymology: < first adj. + world n. In sense A. 2 after Third World n.

A. n.

1. In various mythologies and religions: the first age of the world, as distinct in some way from the present human realm; the first era of human or earthly history; (esp. in Theology) the antediluvian or (less frequently) the prelapsarian world. Now chiefly poetic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > [noun] > of the world or history > specific eras or ages

First Worldc1384

Christian era1636

New Age1640

Common Era1651

oil age1889

machine age1922

space age1946

jet age1948

Age of Aquarius1967

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) 2 Pet. ii. 5 God..sparide not to the first world [L. originali mundo], but kepte Noe.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. viii. i. 441 And so þe firste worlde is euerlastinge and duringe in þouȝt and mynde of God.

1578 H. Wotton tr. J. Yver Courtlie Controuersie 271 The fortunatenesse and felicitie that followed menne of the fyrste worlde, whyche they call the Golden Age.

1637 W. Lisle 4 Bks. of Du Bartas 2 (side note) Adam considers what shall betide his posteritie till the first world is ended by the Flood.

1753 S. Shuckford Creation & Fall of Man viii. 119 The first World was made so very different from the post-diluvian Earth.

1864 J. Anster Faustus Pt. II iii. 287 Feel, that thou the true child art Of the highest Jove—of that first world, alone, 'Mong all that now on earth are, rightful part.

1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. VI. xxi. 20 Beautiful, fair, delectable was that First world: but entered, Enemy of God, Foul Death.

1963 C. H. Long Alpha: Myths of Creation i. 39 The movement is from the blackness of chaos in the first world through the various worlds of specific colors to the world of light.

1996 J. Harjo Woman who fell from Sky 5 Mountains whose names are as ancient as the sound that created the first world.

2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 Jan. 16/1 He saw the Balkans as the ‘First World’, which since Neolithic times was inward-looking and self-supporting.

2. With singular agreement. The industrialized, developed, relatively wealthy and powerful nations of the world (collectively); spec. the industrialized capitalist countries of Western Europe, North America, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. See also quots. 1967 and 1974¹.In early use, frequently as opposed both to the communist nations (formerly) constituting the Second World and to the less-developed and poorer nations constituting the Third World; now more usually only as opposed to the latter.

ΚΠ

1967 Polit. Sci. Q. 82 155 Studies which attempt to survey world trends and to characterize the major attributes of the First World (the United States), the Second World (the U.S.S.R.), and the Third World, are courageous undertakings.

1974 Times 13 Apr. 5/7 Mr Teng announced that the ‘socialist’ camp no longer existed, and that the planet was divided into the First World, consisting of the two superpowers, the Second World, consisting of the other developed countries, and the Third World, which included the developing countries.

1974 Economist 18 May 66/1 The conventional image of recent years has been of a first world of developed market economies, a second world of ‘socialist’ states, and the ‘third world’ of the developing nations.

1980 Sci. Amer. Sept. 107/2 The already industrialized countries of the capitalist and communist blocs (respectively the ‘first world’ and ‘second world’).

1990 S. Elseworth Dict. Environm. 264 A world view different to that of Washington (the First World) and Moscow (the Second).

2001 Dollars & Sense (Electronic ed.) Mar. Since the First World had no intention of redistributing the world's wealth, its answer was for First World science to ‘help’ the Third World by giving it the means to produce more food.

2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) xvi. 495 Immigration, both legal and illegal, of individual Third World inhabitants into the First World.

B. adj. (attributive).

Of, designating, or relating to the First World (sense A. 2).

ΚΠ

1975 M. McLuhan Let. 22 Jan. (1987) 509 The computer is an electric form that is able to transcend the structure of the ‘First World’ arrangements.

1989 S. B. Hecht & A. Cockburn Fate of Forest viii. 186 There are moments in the always ambiguous dialectic between First World conscience and Third World conditions when the former's concerns reach a critical mass.

2001 Fortune (Electronic ed.) 26 Nov. Third World managers seem destined to regard their First World counterparts as imperialists at best and mercantilists at worst.

2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) xvi. 508 First World citizens have shown no interest in paying on a regular basis..to feed billions of Third World citizens.

Compounds

First World problem n. a problem affecting the First World and its inhabitants; spec. a cause of frustration or dissatisfaction regarded as trivial, and arising only as a result of the economic and social privilege, access to technology, etc., associated with the First World.Often in ironic use, implying a contrast with more serious problems experienced in the developing world. Now frequently in the language of social media.

ΚΠ

1979 G. K. Payne in Built Environment 5 99 (title) Housing: Third World solutions to First World problems.

1990 T. A. Bass Camping with Prince 248 Ninety-five percent of the world's research is conducted by first world scientists on first world problems.

1998 A. Dubus Medit. from Movable Chair 88 This is a First World problem; I ought to be only grateful.

1999 South China Morning Post (Nexis) 27 Nov. (Business section) 16 Also on the Discovery Bay agenda is the problem of the new..security guards. It seems they're ‘distastefully dressed’... Ah, First World Problems.

2003 R. J. Art Grand Strategy for Amer. i. 35 Devising limitations to global warming is not just a First World problem; it is the entire world's problem.

2009 @rstevens 24 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 19 May 2014) My ergonomic mouse is too sensitive! #firstworldproblems.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	first world
释义	First Worldn.adj. Brit. /ˌfəːst ˈwəːld/, U.S. /ˈˌfərst ˈwər(ə)ld/ (in sense B.)Brit. /ˈfəːst wəːld/, U.S. /ˈfərst ˌwər(ə)ld/ Forms: see first adj., adv., and n.² and world n.; also with lower-case initials. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: first adj., world n. Etymology: < first adj. + world n. In sense A. 2 after Third World n. A. n. 1. In various mythologies and religions: the first age of the world, as distinct in some way from the present human realm; the first era of human or earthly history; (esp. in Theology) the antediluvian or (less frequently) the prelapsarian world. Now chiefly poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > [noun] > of the world or history > specific eras or ages First Worldc1384 Christian era1636 New Age1640 Common Era1651 oil age1889 machine age1922 space age1946 jet age1948 Age of Aquarius1967 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) 2 Pet. ii. 5 God..sparide not to the first world [L. originali mundo], but kepte Noe. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. viii. i. 441 And so þe firste worlde is euerlastinge and duringe in þouȝt and mynde of God. 1578 H. Wotton tr. J. Yver Courtlie Controuersie 271 The fortunatenesse and felicitie that followed menne of the fyrste worlde, whyche they call the Golden Age. 1637 W. Lisle 4 Bks. of Du Bartas 2 (side note) Adam considers what shall betide his posteritie till the first world is ended by the Flood. 1753 S. Shuckford Creation & Fall of Man viii. 119 The first World was made so very different from the post-diluvian Earth. 1864 J. Anster Faustus Pt. II iii. 287 Feel, that thou the true child art Of the highest Jove—of that first world, alone, 'Mong all that now on earth are, rightful part. 1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. VI. xxi. 20 Beautiful, fair, delectable was that First world: but entered, Enemy of God, Foul Death. 1963 C. H. Long Alpha: Myths of Creation i. 39 The movement is from the blackness of chaos in the first world through the various worlds of specific colors to the world of light. 1996 J. Harjo Woman who fell from Sky 5 Mountains whose names are as ancient as the sound that created the first world. 2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 Jan. 16/1 He saw the Balkans as the ‘First World’, which since Neolithic times was inward-looking and self-supporting. 2. With singular agreement. The industrialized, developed, relatively wealthy and powerful nations of the world (collectively); spec. the industrialized capitalist countries of Western Europe, North America, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. See also quots. 1967 and 1974¹.In early use, frequently as opposed both to the communist nations (formerly) constituting the Second World and to the less-developed and poorer nations constituting the Third World; now more usually only as opposed to the latter. ΚΠ 1967 Polit. Sci. Q. 82 155 Studies which attempt to survey world trends and to characterize the major attributes of the First World (the United States), the Second World (the U.S.S.R.), and the Third World, are courageous undertakings. 1974 Times 13 Apr. 5/7 Mr Teng announced that the ‘socialist’ camp no longer existed, and that the planet was divided into the First World, consisting of the two superpowers, the Second World, consisting of the other developed countries, and the Third World, which included the developing countries. 1974 Economist 18 May 66/1 The conventional image of recent years has been of a first world of developed market economies, a second world of ‘socialist’ states, and the ‘third world’ of the developing nations. 1980 Sci. Amer. Sept. 107/2 The already industrialized countries of the capitalist and communist blocs (respectively the ‘first world’ and ‘second world’). 1990 S. Elseworth Dict. Environm. 264 A world view different to that of Washington (the First World) and Moscow (the Second). 2001 Dollars & Sense (Electronic ed.) Mar. Since the First World had no intention of redistributing the world's wealth, its answer was for First World science to ‘help’ the Third World by giving it the means to produce more food. 2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) xvi. 495 Immigration, both legal and illegal, of individual Third World inhabitants into the First World. B. adj. (attributive). Of, designating, or relating to the First World (sense A. 2). ΚΠ 1975 M. McLuhan Let. 22 Jan. (1987) 509 The computer is an electric form that is able to transcend the structure of the ‘First World’ arrangements. 1989 S. B. Hecht & A. Cockburn Fate of Forest viii. 186 There are moments in the always ambiguous dialectic between First World conscience and Third World conditions when the former's concerns reach a critical mass. 2001 Fortune (Electronic ed.) 26 Nov. Third World managers seem destined to regard their First World counterparts as imperialists at best and mercantilists at worst. 2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) xvi. 508 First World citizens have shown no interest in paying on a regular basis..to feed billions of Third World citizens. Compounds First World problem n. a problem affecting the First World and its inhabitants; spec. a cause of frustration or dissatisfaction regarded as trivial, and arising only as a result of the economic and social privilege, access to technology, etc., associated with the First World.Often in ironic use, implying a contrast with more serious problems experienced in the developing world. Now frequently in the language of social media. ΚΠ 1979 G. K. Payne in Built Environment 5 99 (title) Housing: Third World solutions to First World problems. 1990 T. A. Bass Camping with Prince 248 Ninety-five percent of the world's research is conducted by first world scientists on first world problems. 1998 A. Dubus Medit. from Movable Chair 88 This is a First World problem; I ought to be only grateful. 1999 South China Morning Post (Nexis) 27 Nov. (Business section) 16 Also on the Discovery Bay agenda is the problem of the new..security guards. It seems they're ‘distastefully dressed’... Ah, First World Problems. 2003 R. J. Art Grand Strategy for Amer. i. 35 Devising limitations to global warming is not just a First World problem; it is the entire world's problem. 2009 @rstevens 24 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 19 May 2014) My ergonomic mouse is too sensitive! #firstworldproblems. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.c1384
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