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]

English

Etymology

κόσμος (cosmos) meaning world, and πολις (polis) meaning city, people, citizenry.

Pronunciation

Adjective

cosmopolitan

1. all-inclusive; affecting the whole world
2. (of a place, or institution) composed of people from all over the world
3. In the context of "of a person": at ease in any part of the world
4. In the context of "of a plant etc.": growing in many parts of the world; widely distributed

Translations

• French: cosmopolite
• Hebrew: קוסמופוליטי (qosmopolit'i) , קוסמופוליטית (qosmopolit'it) (1,2,3)
• Polish: kosmopolityczny (1-4)
• Portuguese: cosmopolita
• Russian: космополитический

Noun

cosmopolitan

1. a cosmopolitan person; a cosmopolite
2. a cocktail containing vodka, triple sec, lime juice and cranberry juice

Translations

Cosmopolitan may refer to:

• Cosmopolitanism, the idea that all of humanity belongs to a single moral community
• Cosmopolitan Society/Cosmopolitan City, where people of many ethnicities, religions and cultures meet and live in close proximity (especially applied to busy sea ports)
• Cosmopolitan (magazine), a magazine for women, sometimes referred to as "Cosmo"
• Cosmopolitan Productions, a defunct United States film production company
• Rootless cosmopolitan, a Soviet derogatory epithet during Joseph Stalin's anti-Semitic campaign of 1949–1953
• Cosmopolitan (cocktail), also known as a "Cosmo"
• Cosmopolitan distribution, in biogeography, biological categories which can be found almost anywhere around the world
• Cosmopolitan (TV channel), a satellite/cable television channel
• The Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino, a resort casino and condo that broke ground in October 2005
• CC-109 Cosmopolitan, RCAF version of the Canadair CL-66
• A city/place or person that embraces its multicultural demographics
• Cosmopolitan, a defunct American car maker
• Nash Cosmopolitan, a defunct car model from Nash Motors

Cosmopolite may also refer to:

• World citizen, one who eschews traditional geopolitical divisions derived from national citizenship
• Cosmopolite (butterfly), Vanessa cardui, also known as the "Painted Lady"
• Kosmopoliet, launched in 1854, said to have been the first Dutch clipper

See also

• Cosmo (disambiguation)

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