cosmopolitanize
Americanverb (used with object)
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Etymology
Origin of cosmopolitanize
First recorded in 1875–80; cosmopolitan + -ize
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Critics looking for significance in Anything Goes might write it off as part of the cinema's campaign to cosmopolitanize its audiences.
From Time Magazine Archive
London has been cosmopolitanized, democratized, commercialized, mechanized, standardized and vulgarized.
From Time Magazine Archive
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