Cosmopolitan
[,kɒzmə'pɒlɪt(ə)n] or ['kɑzmə'pɑlətn]
Definition
(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' .
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Definition
(n.) Alt. of Cosmopolite
(a.) Alt. of Cosmopolite
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Definition
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.
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Examples
- Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Well, yes; but such artificiality is needed in these days of easy communication and cosmopolitan races. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Villette is a cosmopolitan city, and in this school were girls of almost every European nation, and likewise of very varied rank in life. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It seemed fitting that this cosmopolitan organization should be located in the world's metropolis rather than in a mere university town. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He remembered what a cosmopolitan gentleman Monsieur Lagnier was, and how few weak distinctions he made. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Rousseau consciously set aside the problem of nationality or citizenship; he was cosmopolitan, and explicitly renounced the idea of planning the education of a Frenchman or a Swiss. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Certainly a man can only be cosmopolitan up to a certain point. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I believe I am truly cosmopolitan. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan, I remarked. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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