worldwise

English

Alternative forms

world-wise

Etymology

From Middle English worldwis, from Old English woruldwīs (“worldwise, worldly-wise, learned”), equivalent to world +‎ wise.

Adjective

worldwise (comparative more worldwise, superlative most worldwise)

Knowledgeable about the world; worldly-wise; sophisticated; experienced.
- 1671, Daniel Cable (translator), Of Natural and Supernatural Things by Basilius Valentinus, London: Moses Pitt, Chapter 3, p. 50,
  Those who are highly conceited, illuminated, and world-wise, hate, envy, scandalize, defame and persecute this Mystery to the utmost Rind, or innermost Kernel, which hath its beginning out of the Center […]
- 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1909, Chapter 12, p. 141,
  An older and more world-wise man might have been puzzled by her varying moods, her sudden prejudices, her quick resentment at all constraint and authority.
- 1919, Saki, “The Purple of the Balkan Kings” in The Toys of Peace and Other Papers, London: John Lane, p. 281,
  Luttpold Wolkenstein, financier and diplomat on a small, obtrusive, self-important scale, sat in his favoured café in the world-wise Habsburg capital, confronted with the Neue Freie Presse and the cup of cream-topped coffee and attendant glass of water that a sleek-headed piccolo had just brought him.
- 1994, U.S. News & World Report,
  Experience that’s worldwide and worldwise. It’s a difference that’s helped us make friends with a world full of travelers.

Derived terms

worldwisdom

单词	worldwise
释义	worldwise English Alternative forms world-wise Etymology From Middle English worldwis, from Old English woruldwīs (“worldwise, worldly-wise, learned”), equivalent to world +‎ wise. Adjective worldwise (comparative more worldwise, superlative most worldwise) Knowledgeable about the world; worldly-wise; sophisticated; experienced. 1671, Daniel Cable (translator), Of Natural and Supernatural Things by Basilius Valentinus, London: Moses Pitt, Chapter 3, p. 50, Those who are highly conceited, illuminated, and world-wise, hate, envy, scandalize, defame and persecute this Mystery to the utmost Rind, or innermost Kernel, which hath its beginning out of the Center […] 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1909, Chapter 12, p. 141, An older and more world-wise man might have been puzzled by her varying moods, her sudden prejudices, her quick resentment at all constraint and authority. 1919, Saki, “The Purple of the Balkan Kings” in The Toys of Peace and Other Papers, London: John Lane, p. 281, Luttpold Wolkenstein, financier and diplomat on a small, obtrusive, self-important scale, sat in his favoured café in the world-wise Habsburg capital, confronted with the Neue Freie Presse and the cup of cream-topped coffee and attendant glass of water that a sleek-headed piccolo had just brought him. 1994, U.S. News & World Report, Experience that’s worldwide and worldwise. It’s a difference that’s helped us make friends with a world full of travelers. Derived terms worldwisdom
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