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: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=fourth+estate -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. Sponsors' messages: Richard Lederer, master of "Anguished English" books masters puns plus in "Giant Book of Animal Jokes." Available at http://StoneandScott.com Ever wonder why we aren't just happy, we're happy as a clam? Derivation, a fascinating game about word & phrase origins. Great gift! http://entspire.com ............................................................................ That wretched alchemist called money can turn a man's heart into a stone! -Mehmet Murat Ildan, writer (1965- ) Share the magic of words. Send a gift sub: http://wordsmith.org/awad/gift.html Remove, change, or subscribe address: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/fourth_estate.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/fourth_estate.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/fourth_estate.html This message was sent to "[email protected]".
