worldwise

comparative more worldwise · superlative most worldwise · alternative world-wise

1. Knowledgeable about the world; worldly-wise; sophisticated; experienced.

   Experience that’s worldwide and worldwise. It’s a difference that’s helped us make friends with a world full of travelers.

   1994, U.S. News & World Report

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   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 […]

   1671, Basilius Valentinus, chapter 3, in Daniel Cable, transl., Of Natural and Supernatural Things, London: Moses Pitt, page 50

   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.

   1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 12, in The White Company, London: Smith, Elder & Co., published 1909, page 141

   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.

   1919, Saki, “The Purple of the Balkan Kings”, in The Toys of Peace and Other Papers, London: John Lane, page 281