cosmopolite
Americannoun
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a person who is cosmopolitan in their ideas, life, etc.; citizen of the world.
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an animal or plant of worldwide distribution.
noun
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a less common word for cosmopolitan
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an animal or plant that occurs in most parts of the world
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Etymology
Origin of cosmopolite
First recorded in 1590–1600; from Greek kosmopolī́tēs “citizen of the world,” equivalent to kosmo- cosmo- + polī́tēs “citizen” ( pól(is) “a city, state” + -ītēs -ite 1 )
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Cosmopolite Dolmetsch, son of a piano maker, was born at Le Mans, France, of Bohemian, German, Swiss and French ancestry, started out to be a violinist, studied with famed Violinist Vieuxtemps at the Brussels Conservatoire.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cosmopolite Colonel Sosthenes Behn built a $603 million communications empire that stretches from New Zealand to the Americas to Sweden.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cosmopolite, metropolite, he conceives the function of the company to be the giving of opera in the best possible manner.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the sixteenth century, the same system was pursued, as will be shown more fully in the life of Seton the Cosmopolite, in the succeeding chapter.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Mackay, Charles
Cosmopolite in culture, in breadth of view, in openness of mind, Mr Stevenson was yet before all things a Scotsman, and one to whom Scotland and his native Edinburgh were peculiarly dear.
From Robert Louis Stevenson by Black, Margaret Moyes
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