Definitions for wisdom tooth

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

wis′dom tooth`(n.)

  1. the third molar on each side of the upper and lower jaws: the last tooth to erupt.

    Category: Dentistry

Idioms for wisdom tooth:

  1. cut one's wisdom teeth, to attain maturity or discretion.

    Category: Idiom

Origin of wisdom tooth:

1660–70

Princeton's WordNet

  1. wisdom tooth(noun)

    any of the last 4 teeth on each side of the upper and lower jaw; the last of the permanent teeth to erupt (between ages 16 and 21)

Wiktionary

  1. wisdom tooth(Noun)

    One of the four (one upper and one lower on each side) rearmost molars in humans, which typically develop between ages 18-24.

  2. Origin: A calque of dens sapientae.


Translations for wisdom tooth

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

wisdom tooth(noun)

any one of the four back teeth cut after childhood, usually about the age of twenty.

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