Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun developing_country

1 sense of developing country

Sense 1
developing country -- (a country that is poor and whose citizens are mostly agricultural workers but that wants to become more advanced socially and economically)
       => state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic -- (a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land")