Usually means: Insight gained from experience, knowledge.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word wisdom:

General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. Wisdom, wisdom: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wisdom: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wisdom: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wisdom: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Wisdom, wisdom: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wisdom, wisdom: Wordnik
  7. wisdom: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Wisdom, wisdom: Wiktionary
  9. wisdom: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wisdom: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wisdom: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wisdom: Dictionary.com
  13. wisdom: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. wisdom: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. WISDOM (radar), Wisdom (Buddhism), Wisdom (albatross), Wisdom (album), Wisdom (band), Wisdom (disambiguation), Wisdom (film), Wisdom (personification), Wisdom (play), Wisdom: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Wisdom: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wisdom: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wisdom: Rhymezone
  19. wisdom: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wisdom: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Wisdom: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. wisdom: Free Dictionary
  23. wisdom: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Wisdom, wisdom: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. wisdom: Dictionary/thesaurus
  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.

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