the way of the world

Noun the way of the world has 1 sense

• the way of the world(n = noun.act) the ways of the world - the manner in which people typically behave or things typically happen; "the ordinary reader is endowed with considerable wisdom and knowledge of the way of the world"; "she was well-versed in the ways of the world before she had taken the veil"; "he was amazingly innocent of the ways of the world"
is a kind of behavior, behaviour, conduct, doings