0 someone who has a lot of experience of life and can deal with most situations:
They would grow up to be true women of the world, educated and experienced in magnificent ways.
I am not a man of the world.
They breathe it in and it colours their minds, and the busy man of the world has no other means of information.
In that way he gets experience, widens his outlook, and becomes more a man of the world and less a man of routine.
I merely ask that it should be a man not only of wisdom, but a man of the world with a thorough going knowledge of racing, betting and gambling facilities.
Being characterised a hot-tempered and cantankerous official as a young man, he gradually emerged as a brilliant and adroit man of the world.
He was emphatically a man of the world, possessing those rare qualities calculated to win every man and repel none.
His poems reveal the culture and tastes of a man of the world, enjoying the closest intimacy with the imperial family.
Now an elegant young man of the world aged 23, he was later described as friendly and charming.
