wisdom
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wisdom/ˈwɪzdəm/
▶noun
- 1 the quality of being wise.
- 2 the body of knowledge and experience that develops within a specified society or period.
– phrases
in someone's wisdom used ironically to suggest that someone's action is ill judged: in their wisdom they decided to dispense with him.
in someone's wisdom used ironically to suggest that someone's action is ill judged: in their wisdom they decided to dispense with him.
'wisdom' also found in these Oxford entries:
anthroposophy
- folk
- kenspeckle
- naive
- pearl
- philosophy
- sage
- sapiential
- saying
- sententious
- soft-headed
- Solomon
- unwisdom
- venerable
- vision
- visionary
- Wisd.
- wisdom tooth
- wiseacre
