[Journalists] Fw: A.Word.A.Day--fourth estate

[Deborah Kendrick]

I thought you all might enjoy the word of the day entry.
Deborah
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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.

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