THE WAY OF THE WORLD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does the way of the world mean? 

• THE WAY OF THE WORLD (noun)
  The noun THE WAY OF THE WORLD has 1 sense:

1. the manner in which people typically behave or things typically happen

  Familiarity information: THE WAY OF THE WORLD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THE WAY OF THE WORLD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The manner in which people typically behave or things typically happen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

the way of the world; the ways of the world

Context example:

he was amazingly innocent of the ways of the world

Hypernyms ("the way of the world" is a kind of...):

behavior; behaviour; conduct; doings (manner of acting or controlling yourself)

 Context examples 

Verily, that is the way of the world.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I can't argue about it, I only know that it's the way of the world, and people who set themselves against it only get laughed at for their pains.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)