Second World

American  

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

1. the world's industrialized nations other than the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.

2. the Communist and socialist nations of the world.

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Etymology

Origin of Second World

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

She has made images of performers such as Charles Dance and Roger Daltrey and Second World War heroines such as Noor Inayat Khan and Violette Szabo.

From BBC

The figure is higher than any time since the Second World War, at the same time as governments across the world are cutting international aid.

From BBC

The 1948 UN Genocide Convention, which The Gambia accuses Myanmar of breaching in its treatment of the Rohingya, was adopted following the mass murder of Jews by Nazi Germany during the Second World War.

From BBC

Washington first got a real taste of Greenland's strategic value during the Second World War.

From BBC

Pizza then exploded in popularity after the Second World War when returning servicemen brought home a seemingly universal passion for the tasty comestible.

From The Wall Street Journal