the ways of the world is a noun meaning "the manner in which people typically behave or things typically happen". It carries one recorded sense.
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”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for the ways of the world come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.