man of the world Meaning of "man of the world"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a worldly-wise person

Usage(s):

  1. A laughing, brawling, gambling man of the world, McMurphy begins his duel with Big Nurse in sheer human exuberance and ends it in a grim, heroic struggle to the death.
  2. Dour and woefully inarticulate, Rabin has frequently been outshone by Peres, 53, an elegant, personable and cultivated man of the world, whose eloquence is legendary in Israel.
  3. In the hands of Milton and Goethe, he became successively a tragic hero and a debonair, reasonable-seeming man of the world.
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