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cosmopolite

[koz-mop-uh-lahyt]

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noun

a person who is cosmopolitan in his or her ideas, life, etc.; citizen of the world.

an animal or plant of worldwide distribution.

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Origin:
1590–1600; < Greek kosmopolī́tēs citizen of the world, equivalent to kosmo- cosmo- + polī́tēs citizen (pól(is) a city, state + -ītēs -ite¹)

Related forms

cos·mop·o·lit·ism, noun

non·cos·mop·o·lite, noun

non·cos·mop·o·lit·ism, noun

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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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cosmopolite (kɒzˈmɒpəˌlaɪt)

—n
1.	a less common word for cosmopolitan
2.	an animal or plant that occurs in most parts of the world

cos'mopolitism

—n

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cosmopolite

late 16c., from Gk. kosmopolites "citizen of the world," from kosmos "world" (see cosmos) + polites "citizen" (see politic). In common use 17c. in a neutral sense; revived from c.1800 with a tinge of reproachfulness (opposed to patriot).

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"Thank Heaven, here is not all the world. The buckeye does not grow in New England, and the mockingbird is rarely heard here. The wild goose is more of a cosmopolite than we; he breaks his fast in Canada, takes a luncheon in the Ohio, and plumes himself for the night in a southern bayou. Even the bison, to some extent, keeps pace with the seasons, cropping the pastures of the Colorado only till a greener and sweeter grass awaits him by the Yellowstone. Yet we think that if rail fences are pulled down, and stone walls piled up on our farms, bounds are henceforth set to our lives and our fates decided. If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the land of infernal fire nevertheless."

-Henry David Thoreau

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