cosmopolitan : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: cosmopolitan	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for cosmopolitan
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cosmopolitan adj growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution" Synonym(s): cosmopolitan, widely distributed Antonym(s): 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" Antonym(s): provincial of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience" Synonym(s): cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, general, universal, worldwide, world- wide n a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries Synonym(s): cosmopolitan, cosmopolite
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cosmopolitan \Cos`mopol"itan\ (-p?l"?-tan), Cosmopolite \Cosmop"olite\ (k?z-m?p"?-l?t), n. [Gr. [?][?][?]; ko`smos the world + [?][?][?] citizen, [?][?][?] city: cf. F. cosmopolitain, cosmopolite.] 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) [web1913]:
Cosmopolitan \Cos`mopol"itan\, Cosmopolite \Cosmop"olite\, 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.