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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COSMOPOLITAN, COSMOPOLITE, n. s as z. [Gr., world, a citizen.] A person who has no fixed residence; on who is no where a stranger, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution" [syn: cosmopolitan, 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: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, general, universal, worldwide, world- wide] n
1: a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries [syn: cosmopolitan, cosmopolite]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Date: circa 1645 cosmopolite II. adjective Date: 1798 1. having worldwide rather than limited or provincial scope or bearing 2. having wide international sophistication ; worldly 3. composed of persons, constituents, or elements from all or many parts of the world 4. found in most parts of the world and under varied ecological conditions <a cosmopolitan herb> • cosmopolitanism noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. 1 a of or from or knowing many parts of the world. b consisting of people from many or all parts. 2 free from national limitations or prejudices. 3 Ecol. (of a plant, animal, etc.) widely distributed. --n. 1 a cosmopolitan person. 2 Ecol. a widely distributed animal or plant. Derivatives: cosmopolitanism n. cosmopolitanize v.tr. & intr. (also -ise). Etymology: COSMOPOLITE + -AN

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite. --Sir W. Hamilton. 2. Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world. The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan. --R. Owen.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. A cosmopolitan place or society is full of people from many different countries and cultures. London has always been a cosmopolitan city. ? parochial ADJ [approval] 2. Someone who is cosmopolitan has had a lot of contact with people and things from many different countries and as a result is very open to different ideas and ways of doing things. The family are rich, and extremely sophisticated and cosmopolitan. ? parochial ADJ [approval]

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