Cosmopolitan

[,kɒzmə'pɒlɪt(ə)n] or ['kɑzmə'pɑlətn]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries.

(adj.) of worldwide scope or applicability; 'an issue of cosmopolitan import'; 'the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time'- Christopher Morley; 'universal experience' .

(adj.) composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests; 'his cosmopolitan benevolence impartially extended to all races and to all creeds'- T.B. Macaulay; 'the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt'; 'that queer, cosmopolitan, rather sinister crowd found around the Marseilles docks' .

(adj.) growing or occurring in many parts of the world; 'a cosmopolitan herb'; 'cosmopolitan in distribution' .

桃瑞丝整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) Alt. of Cosmopolite

(a.) Alt. of Cosmopolite

錄入:勒达

解釋/意思:

n. a citizen of the world: one free from local or national prejudices—also Cosmop′olite.—adj. belonging to all parts of the world: unprejudiced.—ns. Cosmopol′itanism Cosmop′olitism Cosmopol′icy (Shelley).—adjs. Cosmopol′itic -polit′ical.

校對:杜鲁门