wit: Meaning and Definition of

wit

1. the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure.
2. speech or writing showing such perception and expression.
3. a person having or noted for such perception and expression.
4. understanding, intelligence, or sagacity; astuteness.
5. Usually, using one's wits to get ahead.
1. powers of intelligent observation, keen perception, ingenious contrivance, or the like; mental acuity, composure, and resourcefulness:using one's wits to get ahead.
2. mental faculties; senses:to lose one's wits.
6. See (def. 23).
7. to remain alert and observant; be prepared for or equal to anything: to keep your wits about you in a crisis.
8. to provide for oneself by employing ingenuity or cunning; live precariously: We traveled around the world, living by our wits.

wit

1. to know.
2. that is to say; namely: It was the time of the vernal equinox, to wit, the beginning of spring.