Noun: man of the world
| Singular | man of the world |
| Plural | men of the world |
Sample Sentences
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I presume that there is no gentleman in Europe that has not heard of the house of Barry of Barryogue, of the kingdom of Ireland, than which a more famous name is not to be found in Gwillim or D’Hozier; and though, as a man of the world, I have learned to despise heartily the claims of some pretenders to high birth who have no more genealogy than the lacquey who cleans my boots, […] [1844 January–December, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “My Pedigree and Family.—Undergo the Influence of the Tender Passion.”, in “The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. [The Luck of Barry Lyndon.]”, in Miscellanies: Prose and Verse, volume III, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1856, →OCLC, page 3:]
Nouns inflected like man of the world
man from Porlock,
man of the people,
man in black,
man in white,
man of means,
man of honor,
man of straw,
man of parts,
man of Kent,
man of the moment,
man of letters,
man of law,
man of war,
man among men,
man o' war,
man of few words,
man-o'-war,
man-of-war,
man of the world,
man of the frock, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology