man of the world

English

Noun

man of the world (plural men of the world)

1. A worldly or sophisticated man, one well versed in the ways and dealings of humankind.
   • 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:

     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, […]

Coordinate terms

• woman of the world

Translations

worldly man

• Czech: světák (cs) m
• Danish: verdensmand c
• Dutch: man van de wereld m
• Esperanto: homo de mondo
• Finnish: maailmanmies
• French: homme du monde (fr) m
• German: Mann von Welt m, Weltmann (de) m
• Hungarian: világfi (hu)
• Interlingua: homine del mundo
• Italian: uomo di mondo m
• Japanese: 粋人 (ja) (すいじん, suijin)
• Latin: homō mundī m
• Macedonian: све́тски чо́век m (svétski čóvek)
• Polish: światowiec m
• Portuguese: homem do mundo m
• Romanian: om de lume (ro) m
• Russian: све́тский челове́к m (svétskij čelovék)
• Spanish: hombre del mundo m
• Venetian: òm de mondo m