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wisdom

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"Practical good judgment"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈwɪzdəm/Part of speech nounSorted dimoswStarts with WEnds with M1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Good judgment based on knowledge and experience.

Word origin

From Middle English wisdom, from Old English wīsdōm (“wisdom”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīsadōm, from Proto-Germanic *wīsadōmaz (“wisdom”), corresponding to wise + -dom. Cognate with Scots wisdom, wysdom (“wisdom”), West Frisian wiisdom (“wisdom”), Dutch wijsdom (“wisdom”), German Weistum (“legal sentence”), Danish/Norwegian/Swedish visdom (“wisdom”), Icelandic vísdómur (“wisdom”).

Used in a sentence

  • It would also be difficult to get to the bottom line accurately if a wisdom of wombats ate your working papers. Both scenarios are equal in probability.
  • All of us, whether we gather into a wisp of snipes, a wisdom of owls, a wing of plovers, or remain like a single regretful priest on his knees before his God, we are one and it is not for us to decide another's fate.
  • HAVING MY WISDOMS REMOVED

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