Definition of First World in US English:
First World
nounˌfərst ˈwərldˌfərst ˈwərld
The industrialized capitalist countries of western Europe, North America, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.
Compare with Second World and Third World
Example sentencesExamples
- This is not the way to provide the First World health services that New Zealanders deserve.
- This group balances the First World power on the council and adds developing nation concerns to the decision-making process.
- If you come from the First World and have never experienced the problem of lack of rights as a citizen you will not see how serious this issue is.
- New Zealand is the only First World country with an agricultural base.
- Investments in the First World were mainly in support of exports, while those in the Third World were mainly involved in resource exploitation.
- We are committed to developing first-class infrastructure for our First World nation.
- By 2005, there will be little non-high tech manufacturing left anywhere in the First World.
- In common usage, the Third World comprises all countries not included in the First World and the Second World.
- So also are there diverse people in major urban centres in the First World, reflecting many cultural influences and ethnic conjunctions.
- But step through the building's entrance, and the First World illusion disappears.
- If it's not in those two sectors, I'm not sure what it is that sustains a First World standard of living here.
- At the same time, we have the caregivers existing on wages that are simply not acceptable in a country that likes to think of itself as part of the First World.