the three estates
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1. a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights (noun.group)
| hypernym | : | class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum, |
| definition | : | people having the same social, economic, or educational status (noun.group) |
| hyponym | : | first estate, lords spiritual, |
| definition | : | the clergy in France and the heads of the church in Britain (noun.group) |
| hyponym | : | lords temporal, second estate, |
| definition | : | the nobility in France and the peerage in Britain (noun.group) |
| hyponym | : | commons, third estate, |
| definition | : | the common people (noun.group) |
| hyponym | : | fourth estate, |
| definition | : | the press, including journalists, newspaper writers, photographers (noun.group) |
| part meronym | : | body politic, commonwealth, country, land, nation, res publica, state, |
| definition | : | a politically organized body of people under a single government (noun.group) |
| domain region | : | britain, great britain, u.k., uk, united kingdom, united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, |
| definition | : | a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom (noun.location) |
| domain region | : | france, french republic, |
| definition | : | a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe (noun.location) |
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