first world

first world
   rich
   The language of those for whom talk of poverty and backwardness is offensive:
    And then 50,000 First World Citizens-Brits, Americans, French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Danish — name it. (Forsyth, 1994)
   The Second World was inhabited by Soviet Russia and its satellites.
   See also third world.

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