OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 26172

fourth estate

Meanings (ES + gloss)
cuarto poder
Journalism or journalists considered as a group; the press.
The fourth estate is a term to describe the power that journalists and news media have to keep the powers of government in check by informing the citizens. The way citizens have re…
“Of what profession is Mr. Archer?” “Of the Corporation of the Goosequill—of the Press, my boy,” said Warrington; “of the fourth estate.”
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