Usually means: Possessing knowledge, experience, and judgment.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word wise:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. wise: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Wise, -wise, wise: Merriam-Webster
  3. -wise, wise, wise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wise, wise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. -wise, wise: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Wise, wise: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wise, wise: Wordnik
  8. -wise, wise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. WISE, Wise, -wise, wise: Wiktionary
  10. -wise, wise: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. -wise, wise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wise: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. -wise, wise, the wise: Dictionary.com
  14. wise (adj.), wise (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. -wise, wise: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. WISE (AM), WISE, Wise (Stetsasonic), Wise (composer), Wise (rapper), Wise (software), Wise (surname), Wise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Wise: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. wise: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. wise: Rhymezone
  20. wise: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. wise: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. -wise, wise: MyWord.info
  23. WISE, wise: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. wise: FreeDictionary.org
  25. wise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. Wise: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. wise: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wise: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. wise: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. WISE: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. WISE: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. wise: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wise, wise, wise: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. wise: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. WISE: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience.
adjective:  (colloquial, ironic, sarcastic) Disrespectful.
adjective:  (colloquial) Aware, informed (to something).
verb:  To become wise.
verb:  (ergative, slang) Usually with "up", to inform or learn.
noun:  (archaic) Way, manner, or method.
verb:  (dialectal) To instruct.
verb:  (dialectal) To advise; induce.
verb:  (dialectal) To show the way, guide.
verb:  (dialectal) To direct the course of, pilot.
verb:  (dialectal) To cause to turn.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A township in Isabella County, Michigan, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Warren County, North Carolina, United States.
noun:  A town, the county seat of Wise County, Virginia, United States.
noun:  (aviation, nautical) Acronym of wing-in-surface effect.
noun:  (space science, US) Acronym of Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. (a NASA infrared-wavelength astronomical space telescope that performed an all-sky astronomical survey with images in 3-22 μm wavelength bands)

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