Noun
a worldly-wise person
Source: WordNetTemple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world. Thomas Babington Macaulay
The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life. Ernst Mach
A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. Jean de La Bruyère
He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it. Woodrow Wilson
A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin. Maureen McCormick
The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. Ralph Waldo Emerson