Cosmopolitan \Cos`mo*pol"i*tan\ (-p?l"?-tan), Cosmopolite
\Cos*mop"o*lite\ (k?z-m?p"?-l?t), n. [Gr. kosmopoli`ths; ko`smos
the world + poli`ths citizen, po`lis city: cf. F.
cosmopolitain, cosmopolite.]
One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every
place; a citizen of the world.
[1913 Webster] Cosmopolitan
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Cosmopolitan \Cos`mo*pol"i*tan\, Cosmopolite \Cos*mop"o*lite\,
a.
1. Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from
local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal.
[1913 Webster]
In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively
national, in Germany it is certainly too
cosmopolite. --Sir W.
Hamilton.
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2. Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of
the world.
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The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan. --R. Owen.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cosmopolitan
adj 1: growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a
cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution"
[syn: widely distributed] [ant: endemic]
2: 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" [ant: provincial]
3: of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of
cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and
ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley;
"universal experience" [syn: ecumenical, oecumenical,
general, universal, worldwide]
n : a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
[syn: cosmopolite]
WordNet (r) 2.0
119 Moby Thesaurus words for "cosmopolitan":
all-comprehending, all-comprehensive, all-covering, all-embracing,
all-encompassing, all-filling, all-including, all-inclusive,
all-pervading, allover, blase, braw, broad, broad-gauged,
broad-minded, catholic, chic, citizen, citizen by adoption,
city slicker, civic, civil, classy, clothes-conscious, common,
communal, cosmopolite, country-wide, dapper, dashing,
dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, ecumenic, ecumenical,
ecumenistic, elegant, experienced, exquisite, galactic, general,
genteel, hyphenate, hyphenated American, immigrant, international,
jaunty, knowing, man of experience, man-about-town, mature,
matured, metic, national, natty, naturalized citizen, neat, nifty,
nobby, nondenominational, noninsular, nonnative citizen,
nonsectarian, not born yesterday, old, planetary, posh, practiced,
public, recherche, ripe, ripened, ritzy, sagacious, seasoned,
sharp, sleek, slicker, smart, smug, snazzy, social, societal,
soigne, soignee, sophisticate, sophisticated, spacious of mind,
spiffy, spruce, state, style-conscious, subject, supranational,
swank, swanky, swell, total, traveled, tricksy, tried,
tried and true, trig, trim, unbigoted, unfanatical, unhidebound,
universal, unparochial, unprovincial, veteran, well-dressed,
well-groomed, well-traveled, wide, wide-minded, world-wide,
world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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