cosmopolis

[ koz-mop-uh-lis ]

/ kɒzˈmɒp ə lɪs /

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noun

an internationally important city inhabited by many different peoples reflecting a great variety of cultures, attitudes, etc.

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Origin of cosmopolis

1890–95; cosmo- + -polis, modeled on metropolis

Words nearby cosmopolis

cosmological principle, cosmological redshift, cosmology, cosmonaut, cosmonautics, cosmopolis, cosmopolitan, cosmopolitanize, cosmopolite, cosmos, cosmotron

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How to use cosmopolis in a sentence

Speaking of Cronenberg, you once said that making Cosmopolis “reinvigorated” your “ideas about acting.”
Robert Pattinson’s Life After ‘Twilight’|Andrew Romano|June 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Cosmopolis protestors go a step beyond their real-world forebears.
In ‘Cosmopolis,’ Robert Pattinson Depicts Financial World Gone Mad|Alex Klein|August 22, 2012|DAILY BEAST
In Cosmopolis, Packer Capital uses complex fractal modeling, based on patterns in nature, to map data in the markets.
In ‘Cosmopolis,’ Robert Pattinson Depicts Financial World Gone Mad|Alex Klein|August 22, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The yuan gambit is the first clue that Cosmopolis deals with a parallel financial universe.
In ‘Cosmopolis,’ Robert Pattinson Depicts Financial World Gone Mad|Alex Klein|August 22, 2012|DAILY BEAST

“Cosmopolis,” the David Cronenberg film starring Robert Pattinson, is a disquieting look at a twisted Wall Street.
In ‘Cosmopolis,’ Robert Pattinson Depicts Financial World Gone Mad|Alex Klein|August 22, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The city, too, was coming to be recognized as an embryonic cosmopolis.
Montreal 1535-1914, Volume II (of 2)|William Henry Atherton
Was not this great Cosmopolis, this dragon of a thousand talons kind as well as cruel?
The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories|Paul Laurence Dunbar
The great evening had come, and every one in Cosmopolis Castle was agog with excitement.
The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy|Mabel Henriette Spielmann
What is Berlin but a brutalised village, or Paris now but cosmopolis, or Rome but a universe?
England of My Heart--Spring|Edward Hutton
Moreover, turn to the chapter on Prague in "New Cosmopolis," and you will find out in what highland his heart really is.
A Book of Prefaces|H. L. Mencken

British Dictionary definitions for cosmopolis

cosmopolis

/ (kɒzˈmɒpəlɪs) /

noun

an international city

Word Origin for cosmopolis

C19: see cosmo-, polis 1

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