Usually means: Less economically developed global regions.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word Third World:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. third world: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. third world: Merriam-Webster
  3. Third World: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Third World: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Third World: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Third World: Vocabulary.com
  7. Third-World, third-world: Wordnik
  8. the Third World, the Third world: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Third-World, Third World, third-world, third world: Wiktionary
  10. Third World: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Third World: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Third-World, Third World, the Third World: Dictionary.com
  13. Third World: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. The Third World (album), The Third World, Third World (Third World album), Third World (band), Third World (disambiguation), Third World, Third-world, Third world: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Third world: Rhymezone
  16. third world: FreeDictionary.org
  17. third world: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Third World, third-world: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Third World: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Third-World, Third World, Third World: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Political (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Third World: Anthropological Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. third world: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See third_worlder as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Third world)

noun:  (historical, politics) Those countries not aligned with the west or the east during the Cold War.
noun:  (sometimes derogatory) developing countries, especially that of Africa, Asia and Latin America
noun:  (attributive, derogatory, informal) Any developing country, or a country lacking the perceived internationally respected ideal standards of a society (e.g. sufficient rule of law and internationally respected level of prosperity).
noun:  People of marginalized or exploited races, collectively.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Third World [(historical, politics) Those countries not aligned with the west or the east during the Cold War.]

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