: a practical or worldly-wise man of wide experience
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Stu is a man of the world — a former prison officer who showed promise as a junior footballer and once trained with Ruud Gullit at Chelsea.—Phil Hay, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025 Barack Obama State: A man of the world, at this point.—Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 23 July 2024 Together, these men of the world and men of the cloth engineered a spiritual revival designed to shake Americans free from creeping collectivism.—James Morone, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015 The free men of the world are marching together to Victory!—Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 6 June 2024 As written by Cain, Mark Ulrich's Shakespeare is a well-off man of the world in a hurry.—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2023
“Man of the world.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/man%20of%20the%20world. Accessed 29 Mar. 2025.
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