Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

the ways of the world

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.00 in modern English

Syllables: the ways of the -world
IPA

36

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

2

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

n

the manner in which people typically behave or things typically happen

Example Sentences

"the ordinary reader is endowed with considerable wisdom and knowledge of the way of the world"
"she was well-versed in the ways of the world before she had taken the veil"
"he was amazingly innocent of the ways of the world"

Synonyms

the way of the world

Questions

What does the ways of the world mean?: the manner in which people typically behave or things typically happen

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