tercermundista

Spanish

Etymology

From tercer mundo +‎ -ista.

Adjective

tercermundista m or f (masculine and feminine plural tercermundistas)

1. third-world
   • No creo en los bancos, especialmente en los bancos de este país tercermundista.

     don't believe in banks, especially in banks of this third-world country.

     (Jaime Bayly, Y de repente, un ángel, p. 75, 2005.)

Related terms

• tercermundismo

 

Further reading

• “tercermundista”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10