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/kˌɑzməpˈɑlətən/ Listen

noun

Cosmopolite, Cosmopolitan n. One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world.

adjective

Cosmopolite, Cosmopolitan adj.

Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal. "In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite."

Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world. "The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan."

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Etymology of 'Cosmopolitan'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cosmopolitan" Quotes from Famous Books

... he had sat cooling his heels in a corner of the hotel veranda. And all afternoon he had been a spectacle of interest to the beautiful cosmopolitan creature who watched him from her seat under the palm tree ...

— The Return of the Prodigal • May Sinclair

... be reckoned one in virtue of his Zoroastrianism. Probably he did not affect religion much in his early phase of raiding and conquest. The great experience, which was to convert the Jews from insignificant and barbarous highlanders into a cultured, commercial and cosmopolitan people of tremendous possibilities had indeed begun, but only for a part of the race, and so far without obvious result. The first incursion of Iranians in force, and that slow soakage of Indo-European tribes from Russia, which was to develop the Armenian ...

— The Ancient East • D. G. Hogarth

... philosophy, ethics, and logic. It was a period of great intellectual as well as political change and expansion, and in consequence the old education, which had answered well the needs of a primitive and isolated community, now found itself but poorly adapted to meet the larger needs of the new cosmopolitan State. [4] The result was a material change in the old education to adapt it to the needs of the new Athens, now become the intellectual center of the ...

— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY

... glanced at the curtain at the far end of the room. Instantly the boy servant appeared, bearing a tray on which were placed, in dishes of delicate-coloured filigree, strange dainties not to be classified even by a cosmopolitan, with his Flemish and Finnish and all but Icelandic cafes in ...

— Romance Island • Zona Gale

... also talk English with perfect fluency—French too, when called upon, with a little Portuguese and Italian. For, in truth, he is not a Spaniard, but only so by descent, being a Creole of New Orleans—that cosmopolitan city par ...

— The Flag of Distress - A Story of the South Sea • Mayne Reid

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