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" - the ways of the world
Derived forms: the ways of the world
Type of: behavior [US], behaviour [Brit, Cdn], conduct, doings