the manner in which people typically behave or things typically happen
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| the way of the world |
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| the ways of the world |
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sample 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"
semantic pointers
hypernym