idiom
wisdom of the ages
WIZ-dum uv the AY-jiz
ˈwɪzdəm əv ðə ˈeɪdʒɪzListen
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Syllable breakdown
wisdomoftheages
Dictionary meaning
the accumulated knowledge, insight, and practical understanding developed by human civilisations across long spans of history; the distilled lessons of countless generations of lived experience encoded in proverbs, sacred texts, philosophical traditions, and cultural practices; invoking the wisdom of the ages suggests that the solution to a present problem may already exist in the treasury of human experience and need only be remembered and applied
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