wisdom
accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,755 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 10,368 times across 173,643 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment
- the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight also: wiseness
- ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight also: sapience
- the quality of being prudent and sensible also: wiseness, soundness
- an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC also: Wisdom of Solomon
wisdom in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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And it's wonderful what wisdom the boys show.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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A year at Harrow confirmed Scaife's confidence in his father's worldly wisdom.
The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1
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Her Ladyship was an old woman who indulged and inspired herself with an Epicurean wisdom.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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It is freighted with a double cargo, the wisdom of two great civilizations, pagan and Christian.
The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two · Samuel Johnson · Chapter 1
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He took his way towards the sunrising, because he knew that all the wisdom of old time comes from the East.
The Yellow Fairy Book: The Grateful Beasts · World Traditions (Celtic, Norse, Asian & Persian) · Chapter 1