Usually means: Insight gained from experience, knowledge.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word wisdom:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. wisdom: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Wisdom, wisdom: Merriam-Webster
  3. wisdom: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wisdom: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wisdom: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Wisdom, wisdom: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wisdom, wisdom: Wordnik
  8. wisdom: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Wisdom, wisdom: Wiktionary
  10. wisdom: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wisdom: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wisdom: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. wisdom: Dictionary.com
  14. wisdom: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. wisdom: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. WISDOM (radar), Wisdom (Buddhism), Wisdom (albatross), Wisdom (album), Wisdom (band), Wisdom (disambiguation), Wisdom (film), Wisdom (personification), Wisdom (play), Wisdom: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Wisdom: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. wisdom: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. wisdom: Rhymezone
  20. wisdom: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. wisdom: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Wisdom: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. wisdom: FreeDictionary.org
  24. wisdom: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. wisdom: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. wisdom: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wisdom: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wisdom (philosophy), wisdom: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wisdom (philosophy), Wisdom: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. WISDOM: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. wisdom: Idioms
  5. wisdom: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Wisdom, Wisdom: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See wisdoms as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.
noun:  (countable) A piece of wise advice.
noun:  The discretionary use of knowledge for the greatest good.
noun:  The ability to apply relevant knowledge in an insightful way, especially to different situations from that in which the knowledge was gained.
noun:  The ability to make a decision based on the combination of knowledge, experience, and intuitive understanding.
noun:  (theology) The ability to know and apply spiritual truths.
noun:  (rare) A group of wombats.
noun:  (rare) A group of owls.
noun:  (biblical) The Wisdom of Solomon, a book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
noun:  (countable, colloquial) Short for wisdom tooth. [(dentistry) One of the four (one upper and one lower on each side) rearmost molars in humans, which typically develop between ages 18-24.]

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