First World

noun

1. the major industrialized non-Communist nations, including those in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, and Japan.

Word History and Origins

Origin of First World¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

Seeking their first World Cup appearance since 2006, the Czechs are not even completely sure of a berth in the playoffs next March -- a situation compounded by their loss in Torshavn on Sunday.

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Cape Verde, a former Portuguese colony of just more than half a million people scattered across an archipelago of Atlantic islands, had qualified for its first World Cup.

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It was here where independence was celebrated in 1975 and where Cape Verde played their very first World Cup qualifiers back in 2000.

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Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs was sentenced to jail in 1918 for speaking out against the First World War.

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World champion Luke Littler clinically defeated world number one Luke Humphries 6-1 in Leicester to win his first World Grand Prix title.

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