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cosmopolitan

[ koz-muh-pol-i-tn ]

adjective

  1. free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world.

    Synonyms: worldly, urbane, sophisticated

    Antonyms: parochial, provincial

  2. of or characteristic of a cosmopolite.
  3. belonging to all the world; not limited to just one part of the world.
  4. Botany, Zoology. widely distributed over the globe.


noun

  1. a person who is free from local, provincial, or national bias or attachment; citizen of the world; cosmopolite.
  2. a cocktail made with vodka, cranberry juice, an orange-flavored liqueur, and lime juice.

cosmopolitan

/ ˌkɒzməˈpɒlɪtən /

noun

  1. a person who has lived and travelled in many countries, esp one who is free of national prejudices


adjective

  1. having interest in or familiar with many parts of the world
  2. sophisticated or urbane
  3. composed of people or elements from all parts of the world or from many different spheres
  4. (of plants or animals) widely distributed

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Derived Forms

  • ˌcosmoˈpolitanism, noun

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Other Words From

  • cos·mo·pol·i·tan·ism noun
  • cos·mo·pol·i·tan·ly adverb
  • non·cos·mo·pol·i·tan adjective noun
  • un·cos·mo·pol·i·tan adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cosmopolitan1

First recorded in 1835–45; cosmopolite + -an

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cosmopolitan1

C17: from French, ultimately from Greek kosmopolitēs, from kosmo- cosmo- + politēs citizen

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Example Sentences

During what would turn out to be a 12-year stint in office, Ferré transformed Miami from a one-trick tourist destination into a thriving cosmopolitan city by fostering high-rise construction and opening the city’s ports to international business.

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Adams carried most of the city’s neighborhoods outside its cosmopolitan core.

Its cosmopolitan hippies and surfers and acid burnouts still exist, but they share a state with millions of people who are more rural, more conservative, more rugged.

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At the same time, though, where Bush was incurious and parochial, Obama was intellectual and cosmopolitan.

Compared with those settlements, Salisbury was cosmopolitan.

Cosmopolitan has asked readers, “Are You Dating a Lumbersexual?”

The Levant is already a far cry from the cosmopolitan melting pot it once was.

He is deeply rooted in a heartfelt and learned cosmopolitan spiritualism.

The British editor of Cosmopolitan says she loves talking about (and having) sex.

Cosmopolitan is bringing its hilariously bad sex tips to lesbians now.

He was mentally so cosmopolitan, so much at ease in the world, that here in London he readily found himself at home indeed.

As he spoke he gesticulated slightly, and no second glance was needed to realise that he was a thorough-going cosmopolitan.

In certain moods he possessed that dash and devil-may-care air which pleases most women, providing the man is a cosmopolitan.

He was a marvellously alert man, an unusually good linguist, and a cosmopolitan to his finger-tips.

No second glance at Fetherston was needed to ascertain that he was a most thorough-going cosmopolitan.

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