Usually means: Media's role as societal watchdog.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word fourth estate:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. fourth estate: Merriam-Webster
  2. fourth estate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fourth estate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fourth estate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fourth estate: Vocabulary.com
  6. the fourth estate: Wordnik
  7. the Fourth Estate, the Fourth estate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fourth estate: Wiktionary
  9. fourth estate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. fourth estate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. The fourth estate, fourth estate: Dictionary.com
  12. fourth estate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Fourth Estate (Department of Defense), Fourth Estate (disambiguation), Fourth Estate (imprint), Fourth Estate, Fourth estate, The Fourth Estate (film), The Fourth Estate (novel), The Fourth Estate (painting), The Fourth Estate (picture), The Fourth Estate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. fourth estate: Rhymezone
  15. fourth estate, the fourth estate: FreeDictionary.org
  16. fourth estate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. The fourth estate, fourth estate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. fourth estate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fourth Estate (cocktail), fourth estate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fourth Estate (cocktail), fourth estate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. fourth estate: A Word A Day
  3. fourth estate: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fourth Estate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fourth estate)

noun:  (obsolete) A hypothetical fourth class of civic subjects, or fourth body (in Britain, after the Crown, and the two Houses of Parliament) which governed legislation.
noun:  (idiomatic) Journalism or journalists considered as a group; the press.

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