fourth estate

1. 1.

   the press, including journalists, newspaper writers, photographers

   Broaderestate of the realm

Questions about fourth estate

What does fourth estate mean?

fourth estate means "the press, including journalists, newspaper writers, photographers".

Is fourth estate a common word?

fourth estate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.