What is the meaning of the way of the world?

noun

  • The manner in which people typically behave or things typically happen.
    • usage: "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"
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