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Cosmopolitan

adjective

1.

Growing or occurring in many parts of the world. Synonym: widely distributed. "Cosmopolitan in distribution"

2.

Composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests. "The ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt" , "That queer, cosmopolitan, rather sinister crowd found around the Marseilles docks"

3.

Of worldwide scope or applicability. Synonyms: ecumenical, general, oecumenical, universal, world-wide, worldwide. "The shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time" , "Universal experience"

noun

1.

A sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries. Synonym: cosmopolite.

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"Cosmopolitan" Quotes from Famous Books

... cosmopolitan you are more so than we Americans," Cortlandt acknowledged. "We assume foreign airs and customs that please us and forget to retain our own, while you— well, with Germans you are German, with Englishmen you are English, and yet you never forget to ...

— The Ne'er-Do-Well • Rex Beach

... hospitals and charitable institutions which he had so generously helped to maintain, in the art clubs and museums, in the Cosmopolitan Opera House—in the founding of which he had been leading spirit and unfailingly thereafter, its most generous contributor—he was mourned with a sincerity no less deep because of ...

— The Crevice • William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander

... between the life work of Bjoernson and that of the two men whom a common age and common aims bring into inevitable association with him. These distinctions are chiefly two,—one of them is that while Tolstoy and Ibsen grew to be largely cosmopolitan in their outlook, Bjoernson has much more closely maintained throughout his career the national, or, at any rate, the racial standpoint. The other is that while Tolstoy and Ibsen presently became, the one indifferent to artistic expression, and the other baldly prosaic where he was once deeply ...

— Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson • William Morton Payne

... the simplicity of the people was completely undermined, and while they became more cosmopolitan they also grew more lax. They used the Greek language, and employed Greek writers, as we have seen, to make their books for them, which, though bearing Greek titles, were composed in Latin. The public men performed in the forenoon their civil ...

— The Story of Rome From the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic • Arthur Gilman

... the Station were very familiar to her, she climbed the path leading to the Cosmopolitan Hotel, at which her husband was staying. It rose by easy stages to a higher level and passed by red-brick villas built on the English plan, with pent roofs and homely chimney-pots. In parts the road was clear, in others, heavily shaded by tall ...

— Banked Fires • E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi

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