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cosmopolitan
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Cosmopolitan \Cos`mo*pol"i*tan\, Cosmopolite \Cos*mop"o*lite\, a.
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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.
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Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world.
The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan.
--R. Owen.
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.
Wiktionary
a. 1 all-inclusive; affecting the whole world 2 (context of a place or institution English) composed of people from all over the world 3 (context of a person English) at ease in any part of the world 4 (context biology ecology English) growing in many parts of the world; widely distributed n. 1 a cosmopolitan person; a cosmopolite 2 a cocktail containing vodka, triple sec, lime juice and cranberry juice
WordNet
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 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]
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]
Wikipedia
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 late 1960s. Also known as Cosmo, its content as of 2011 included articles on women's issues, relationships, sex, health, careers, self-improvement, celebrities, fashion, and beauty. Published by Hearst Magazines, Cosmopolitan has 64 international editions, is printed in 35 languages and is distributed in more than 110 countries.
A cosmopolitan, or informally a cosmo, is a cocktail made with vodka, triple sec, cranberry juice, and freshly squeezed or sweetened lime juice.
Cosmopolitan may refer to:
Internationalism- World citizen, one who eschews traditional geopolitical divisions derived from national citizenship
- Cosmopolitanism, the idea that all of humanity belongs to a single moral community
- Cosmopolitan (magazine), a magazine for women, sometimes referred to as "Cosmo"
- Cosmopolitan (film), a 2003 film starring Roshan Seth
- Cosmopolitan Television, a satellite/cable television channel
- Cosmopolitan Productions, a defunct United States film production company
- CC-109 Cosmopolitan, RCAF version of the Canadair CL-66
- Cosmopolitan automobile company, a defunct American car maker
- Nash Cosmopolitan, a defunct car model from Nash Motors
- Rootless cosmopolitan, a Soviet derogatory epithet during Joseph Stalin's anti-Semitic campaign of 1949–1953
- Cosmopolitan (cocktail), also known as a "Cosmo"
- Cosmopolitan distribution, in biogeography, biological categories which can be found almost anywhere around the world
- Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, a luxury resort casino and hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada which opened in December 2010
- Cosmopolitan Hotel in Hong Kong
Cosmopolitan is a 2003 American independent film starring Roshan Seth and Carol Kane, and directed by Nisha Ganatra. The film, based on an acclaimed short story by Akhil Sharma and written by screenwriter Sabrina Dhawan ( Monsoon Wedding), is a cross-cultural romance between a confused and lonely middle-aged Indian, who has lived in America for 20 years, and his exasperating, free-spirited blonde neighbour.
The film was released theatrically in 2003. It was televised nationally in 2004 on the PBS series Independent Lens.
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.