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cosmopolitan
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WordNet
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adj. growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution" [syn: widely distributed ] [ant: endemic ] composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a cosmopolitan city (= full of people from different parts of the world ) ▪ San Francisco is a very cosmopolitan city. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB more ▪ Indeed, Abraham, more cosmopolitan and less legalistic ...
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Cosmopolitan is an international fashion magazine for women . As The Cosmopolitan it was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, it was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1844, from cosmopolite "citizen of the world" (q.v.) on model of metropolitan . The U.S. women's magazine of the same name was first published in 1886. Cosmopolitanism first recorded 1828.
Usage examples of cosmopolitan.
After Macore and Bly went ashore, the others grew restless, with the bright lights and noise of a massive and living cosmopolitan city crisscrossed with a network of canals and levees.
Macore and Bly went ashore, the others grew restless, with the bright lights and noise of a massive and living cosmopolitan city crisscrossed with a network of canals and levees.
New York, for over a century the great center of cosmopolitan cuisine, has finally succumbed to the suburbanization of the kitchen.
These worthy people, seeing me dressed like a lord, with a cross on my breast, took me for a cosmopolitan charlatan who was expected at Augsburg, and Bassi, strange to say, did not undeceive them.
Although this outfit had been selected purely to do its part in proclaiming Doni to be one of a standard house-party of welloff cosmopolitan holidaymakers, it did more for her than that.
The selection of wildfowl was especially cosmopolitan, including bittern, shoveler, pewit, godwit, quail, dotterl, heronsew, crane, snipe, plover, redshank, pheasant, grouse, and curlew.
Geneva he believed might last for months and he detested the place, which, as Lord Lamancha had once said, was full of the ghosts of mouldy old jurisconsults, and the living presence of cosmopolitan bores.
They enjoyed the exotic aromas that spilled forth from the delicatessens, the appetizer shops with their tempting displays of lox, carp, sturgeon, pickled herring, and the myriad foods foreign to Magnolia, Georgia though to some extent available in the more cosmopolitan Atlanta.
In our days nothing is important, and nothing is sacred, for our cosmopolitan philosophers.
In general, however, on recent lines of internationalist thought and on the alternative between statist and cosmopolitan approaches, see Zolo, Cosmopolis.
In the new Roman world this theological exclusivism broke down, and the priests of a particular god, scattered like their followers among the cities of the eastern world, began to seek a cosmopolitan rather than a nationalist following.
It is cosmopolitan, corrupt, mannerly, creative, historic, innovative, multivalent, gentle, bold, concerned, and exciting.
Besides Ruskin, Watts was beginning to make other friends, and was a member of the Cosmopolitan Club, which counted among its members Sir Robert Morier, Sir Henry Layard, FitzGerald, Palgrave, and Spedding.
Their organizing ability expressed itself throughout the world in the great preponderance of Germans in the control of cosmopolitan institutions such as the World Commissions for Health, Postage, Radio, Transport.
Marxism never had any but the vaguest fancies about the relation of one nation to another, and the new Russian government, for all its cosmopolitan phrases, is more and more plainly the heir to the obsessions of Tsarist Imperialism, using the Communist party, as other countries have used Christian missionaries, to maintain a propagandist government to forward its schemes.