/kɑˌzmʌpɑˈlʌtʌn/ - [kazmupalutun] - cos•mo•pol•i•tan
We found 15 definitions of cosmopolitan from 6 different sources.
NounPlural: cosmopolitans |
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cosmopolitan - a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries | ||
cosmopolite | ||
man of the world, sophisticate a worldly-wise person | ||
Adjective |
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cosmopolitan - of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience" | ||
ecumenical, oecumenical, general, universal, worldwide, world-wide | ||
comprehensive including all or everything; "comprehensive coverage"; "a comprehensive history of the revolution"; "a comprehensive survey"; "a comprehensive education" | ||
cosmopolitan - 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" | ||
provincial characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes" | ||
cosmopolitan - growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution" | ||
widely distributed | ||
bionomics, environmental science, ecology the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment |