cosmopolitan
Americanadjective
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free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world.
- Synonyms:
- worldly, urbane, sophisticated
- Antonyms:
- parochial, provincial
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of or characteristic of a cosmopolite.
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belonging to all the world; not limited to just one part of the world.
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Botany, Zoology. widely distributed over the globe.
noun
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a person who is free from local, provincial, or national bias or attachment; citizen of the world; cosmopolite.
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a cocktail made with vodka, cranberry juice, an orange-flavored liqueur, and lime juice.
noun
adjective
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having interest in or familiar with many parts of the world
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sophisticated or urbane
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composed of people or elements from all parts of the world or from many different spheres
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(of plants or animals) widely distributed
Other Word Forms
- cosmopolitanism noun
- cosmopolitanly adverb
- noncosmopolitan adjective
- uncosmopolitan adjective
Etymology
Origin of cosmopolitan
First recorded in 1835–45; cosmopolite + -an
Example Sentences
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He began writing only after having had a varied cosmopolitan life, and in 2009, already in his 40s, published “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders,” a collection of loosely connected short stories.
“The Migrant Kitchen,” from PBS SoCal, explores our cosmopolitan food culture and the immigrants who create it.
From Los Angeles Times
On a recent day this winter, a cosmopolitan mix of convicts mingled in the camp’s exercise yards and worked out in the outdoor gym.
The AI ordered up “classic elegance with a modern twist” and a “cosmopolitan charisma” that would allow Tilly to, say, “adopt local fashion elements during an Asian press tour.”
They lived in Ottoman Salonica, a melting-pot of Greeks, Turks, Jews, Albanians and cosmopolitan traders from all over Europe.
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