cosmopolitan
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7.4
- noun
- /ˌkɑːzməˈpɒlɪtən/
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cosmopolita
- While lying in bed, waiting for sleep, Gopal read another article in Cosmopolitan about job pressure's effects on one's sex life.
So that you have your coastal cosmopolitans and you have your inland locals, you could say.
- So that you have your coastal cosmopolitans and you have your inland locals, you could say.
Examples
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The first challenge is to the assumption that cosmopolitan is "Western."
Academic text (2008) -
"For one thing, there are cosmopolitans, and there are locals."
Academic text (2008) -
- I am a cosmopolitan.
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You have to see if you can get something, in other words, your family... you can start your rich cosmopolitan travels again.
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So we were not cosmopolitans, we were refugees.
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The husband watched TV in the living room while his wife paged through a Cosmopolitan.
Fiction book (2002) -
The Chinese Communists, who would eventually come to victory in 1949, were not the first political cosmopolitans of China.
Academic text (2008) -
So that you have your coastal cosmopolitans and you have your inland locals, you could say.
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The assumption that cosmopolitans are mobile metropolitans pervades much of the literature on cosmopolitanism.
Academic text (2008) -
As a frequent traveler, Amelia is considered a cosmopolitan who feels at home in any city around the world.
Synonyms
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2.9
A person who goes to many countries around the world
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4.7
A person who often travels to many different countries
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7.9
A person who has lived in many different countries
A person who feels comfortable in many countries and cultures
Antonyms
Compounds
- Archaic
A person who has no permanent home and feels at home in many places
How Cosmopolitan
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cosmopolitan comes from old Greek parts cosmo- 'world' and -politan 'citizen'. So a cosmopolitan is like a 'citizen of the world' — a person who feels at home and comfortable in many countries and cultures.