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cos·mo·pol·i·tan
/ˌkɑzməˈpɑlətṇ/
四海為家的人
From:
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Cos·mo·pol·i·tan
Cos·mop·o·lite
n.
One
who
has
no
fixed
residence
,
or
who
is
at
home
in
every
place
;
a
citizen
of
the
world
.
From:
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Cos·mo·pol·i·tan
,
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
.
◄
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From:
WordNet (r) 2.0
cosmopolitan
adj
1:
growing
or
occurring
in
many
parts
of
the
world
; "
a
cosmopolitan
herb
"; "
cosmopolitan
in
distribution
"
[
syn
:
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
:
ecumenical
,
oecumenical
,
general
,
universal
,
worldwide
]
n
:
a
sophisticated
person
who
has
travelled
in
many
countries
[
syn
:
cosmopolite
]
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