cos·mo·pol·i·tan /ˌkɑzməˈpɑlətṇ/
四海為家的人
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.
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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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]