THE WAYS OF THE WORLD

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

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THE WAYS 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 ways of the world" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

They are young in the ways of the world, and not yet open to the mortifying conviction that handsome young men must have something to live on as well as the plain.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)