Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - wisdom
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(wisdoms) 1. Wisdom is the ability to use your experience and knowledge in order to make sensible decisions or judgments. ...the patience and wisdom that comes from old age. ...a great man, who spoke words of great wisdom. N-UNCOUNT 2. Wisdom is the store of knowledge that a society or culture has collected over a long period of time. ...this church’s original Semitic wisdom, religion and faith. N-VAR 3. If you talk about the wisdom of a particular decision or action, you are talking about how sensible it is. Many Lithuanians have expressed doubts about the wisdom of the decision. N-SING: the N of n/-ing 4. You can use wisdom to refer to ideas that are accepted by a large number of people. Health education wisdom in the UK differs from that of the United States... Unchallenged wisdoms flow swiftly among the middle classes. N-VAR: supp N • The conventional wisdom about something is the generally accepted view of it. ...the conventional wisdom that soccer is a minor sport in America. PHRASE: N inflects
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noun Date: circa 1440 a didactic book included in the Roman Catholic canon of the Old Testament and corresponding to the ~ of Solomon in the Protestant Apocrypha — see bible table WISDOM noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English wisdom, from wis wise Date: before 12th century 1. a. accumulated philosophic or scientific learning ; knowledge b. ability to discern inner qualities and relationships ; insight c. good sense ; judgment d. generally accepted belief challenges what has become accepted ~ among many historians — Robert Darnton 2. a wise attitude, belief, or course of action 3. the teachings of the ancient wise men Synonyms: see sense ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 the state of being wise. 2 experience and knowledge together with the power of applying them critically or practically. 3 sagacity, prudence; common sense. 4 wise sayings, thoughts, etc., regarded collectively. Phrases and idioms in his (or her etc.) wisdom usu. iron. thinking it would be best (the committee in its wisdom decided to abandon the project). wisdom tooth each of four hindmost molars not usu. cut before 20 years of age. Etymology: OE wisdom (as WISE(1), -DOM) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. мудрость, премудрость years bring wisdom —- мудрость приходит с годами the W. of Solomon, the Book of W. —- библ. Книга премудрости Соломона 2. разг. благоразумие, здравый смысл, житейская мудрость (также worldly wisdom) I doubt the wisdom of trusting him —- вряд ли разумно верить ему 3. книж. знания, ученость the wisdom of the ages —- вековой опыт человечества the wisdom of the ancients —- знания древних Id: learn wisdom by the follies of others —- учись уму на чужой глупости Id: no wisdom like silence —- молчание - золото ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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noun 1) мудрость - pour forth wisdom 2) здравый смысл Syn: discernment, discrimination, judgment, sagacity, sense Ant: folly, foolishness, imprudence, indiscretion, miscalculation, misjudgment, senselessness, silliness, stupidity ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ n 1 good sense and judgment, based especially on your experience of life (a man of great wisdom | question the wisdom of formal (=say that you think something is not sensible)) (I would question the wisdom of lending him such a large amount of money.) 2 knowledge gained over a long period of time through learning or experience (the collected wisdom of many centuries) 3 received/conventional wisdom a belief that is generally thought to be true (The received wisdom is that boys mature more slowly than girls.) 4 in his/her (infinite) wisdom used to say jokingly that you do not understand why someone has decided to do something (The boss, in her infinite wisdom, has decided to re-organize the whole office yet again.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- O.E. wisdom, from wis (see wise (adj.)). Wisdom teeth so called from 1848 (earlier teeth of wisdom, 1668), a loan-translation of L. dentes sapientiж, from Gk. sophronisteres (used by Hippocrates, from sophron "prudent, self-controlled"), so called because they usually appear ages 17-25, when a person reaches adulthood. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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