FOURTH ESTATE

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does fourth estate mean? 

• FOURTH ESTATE (noun)
  The noun FOURTH ESTATE has 2 senses:

1. newspaper writers and photographers
2. newspapers and magazines collectively

  Familiarity information: FOURTH ESTATE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOURTH ESTATE (noun)

Meaning:

Newspaper writers and photographers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

fourth estate; press

Hypernyms ("fourth estate" is a kind of...):

estate; estate of the realm (a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fourth estate"):

gutter press (press that engages in sensational journalism (especially concerning the private lives of public figures))

press corps (a group of journalists representing different publications who all cover the same topics)

Meaning:

Newspapers and magazines collectively

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

journalism; news media; fourth estate

Hypernyms ("fourth estate" is a kind of...):

print media (a medium that disseminates printed matter)

Meronyms (substance of "fourth estate"):

copy (material suitable for a journalistic account)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fourth estate"):

Fleet Street (British journalism)

photojournalism (journalism that presents a story primarily through the use of pictures)

tab; tabloid; yellow journalism (sensationalist journalism)