Meaning of First-Worldish | Babel Free
Definitions
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Resembling or characteristic of a First World country. informal, rare
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Alternative letter-case form of First-Worldish alt-of
Examples
“Some of the above group belongings are very first-worldish – you will know the relevant groupings to choose for your students.”
“While it would be foolish - not to say first-worldish - to claim post-colonial theory as part of the Marxist tradition, the importance of Marxism for such influential figures as Gayatry Chakravorty Spivak (1988) is indisputable.”
“Now tell me what's so first-worldish about a faceless mound of earth lying sprinkled flat, somewhere on the face of Mother earth?”
“I don't think this is much of an issue. Brazil has extremely high crime rates in Rio and Sao Paulo probably matching some of RSA's worst. However, I don't think any visitors will be staying in the slums of Sao Paulo or the townships in South Africa where the violence is really out of hand. Middle-income nations such as Brazil and South Africa have both their first-worldish and third-worldian parts. And even so, the World Cups have been held in many statistically more violent areas such as Mexico, USA, South America, without greater incidence of violence than ones in Western Europe.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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