wisdom
pronunciation
How to pronounce wisdom in British English:
UK [ˈwɪzdəm]
How to pronounce wisdom in American English:
US [ˈwɪzdəm]
-
- Noun:
- accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment
- the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight
- ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
- the quality of being prudent and sensible
Word Origin
- wisdom (n.)
- Old English wisdom "knowledge, learning, experience," from wis (see wise (adj.)) + -dom. A common Germanic compound (Old Saxon, Old Frisian wisdom, Old Norse visdomr, Old High German wistuom "wisdom," German Weistum "judicial sentence serving as a precedent"). Wisdom teeth so called from 1848 (earlier teeth of wisdom, 1660s), a loan-translation of Latin dentes sapientiae, itself a loan-translation of Greek sophronisteres (used by Hippocrates, from sophron "prudent, self-controlled"), so called because they usually appear ages 17-25, when a person reaches adulthood.
Synonym
Antonym
Example
- 1. Still , there 's something to be said for age-old wisdom .
- 2. So we asked five expert market observers to share their wisdom .
- 3. Trust implicitly the wisdom of your subconscious mind .
- 4. This is not the conventional wisdom .
- 5. Some of the paper 's results challenge accepted wisdom .