Cosmopolitan

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cosmopolitan \Cos`mo*pol"i*tan\ (-p?l"?-tan), Cosmopolite
  \Cos*mop"o*lite\ (k?z-m?p"?-l?t), n. [Gr. kosmopoli`ths; ko`smos
     the world + poli`ths citizen, po`lis city: cf. F.
     cosmopolitain, cosmopolite.]
     One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every
     place; a citizen of the world.


     [1913 Webster] Cosmopolitan

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cosmopolitan \Cos`mo*pol"i*tan\, Cosmopolite \Cos*mop"o*lite\,
     a.
     1. Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from
        local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal.
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              In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively
              national, in Germany it is certainly too
              cosmopolite.                          --Sir W.
                                                    Hamilton.
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     2. Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of
        the world.
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              The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan.     --R. Owen.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cosmopolitan
       adj 1: growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a
              cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution"
              [syn: {widely distributed}] [ant: {endemic}]
       2: composed of people from or at home in many parts of the
          world; especially not provincial in attitudes or
          interests; "his cosmopolitan benevolence impartially
          extended to all races and to all creeds"- T.B. Macaulay;
          "the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and
          Egypt"; "that queer, cosmopolitan, rather sinister crowd
          found around the Marseilles docks" [ant: {provincial}]
       3: of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of
          cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and
          ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley;
          "universal experience" [syn: {ecumenical}, {oecumenical},
          {general}, {universal}, {worldwide}]
       n : a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
           [syn: {cosmopolite}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  119 Moby Thesaurus words for "cosmopolitan":
     all-comprehending, all-comprehensive, all-covering, all-embracing,
     all-encompassing, all-filling, all-including, all-inclusive,
     all-pervading, allover, blase, braw, broad, broad-gauged,
     broad-minded, catholic, chic, citizen, citizen by adoption,
     city slicker, civic, civil, classy, clothes-conscious, common,
     communal, cosmopolite, country-wide, dapper, dashing,
     dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, ecumenic, ecumenical,
     ecumenistic, elegant, experienced, exquisite, galactic, general,
     genteel, hyphenate, hyphenated American, immigrant, international,
     jaunty, knowing, man of experience, man-about-town, mature,
     matured, metic, national, natty, naturalized citizen, neat, nifty,
     nobby, nondenominational, noninsular, nonnative citizen,
     nonsectarian, not born yesterday, old, planetary, posh, practiced,
     public, recherche, ripe, ripened, ritzy, sagacious, seasoned,
     sharp, sleek, slicker, smart, smug, snazzy, social, societal,
     soigne, soignee, sophisticate, sophisticated, spacious of mind,
     spiffy, spruce, state, style-conscious, subject, supranational,
     swank, swanky, swell, total, traveled, tricksy, tried,
     tried and true, trig, trim, unbigoted, unfanatical, unhidebound,
     universal, unparochial, unprovincial, veteran, well-dressed,
     well-groomed, well-traveled, wide, wide-minded, world-wide,
     world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise