What is "cosmopolitan" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does cosmopolitan mean in English? Meaning of cosmopolitan definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "cosmopolitan" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "cosmopolitan": a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries

Noun

  • Meaning: a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
  • Synonyms: cosmopolitan cosmopolite
  • Hyponyms: globetrotter world traveler
  • Hypernyms: man of the world sophisticate
  • Pronunciation in UK: /kɒz.mə(ʊ)ˈpɒl.ɪ.tən/

    Meaning of "cosmopolitan": growing or occurring in many parts of the world

    Adjective

  • Meaning: growing or occurring in many parts of the world
  • Example: a cosmopolitan herb cosmopolitan in distribution
  • Synonyms: cosmopolitan widely distributed
  • Antonyms: endemic
  • Pronunciation in UK: /kɒz.mə(ʊ)ˈpɒl.ɪ.tən/

    Meaning of "cosmopolitan": composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests

    Adjective

  • Meaning: composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests
  • Example: his cosmopolitan benevolence impartially extended to all races and to all creeds the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt that queer, cosmopolitan, rather sinister crowd found around the Marseilles docks
  • Synonyms: cosmopolitan
  • Antonyms: provincial
  • Similar: traveled travelled
  • Pronunciation in UK: /kɒz.mə(ʊ)ˈpɒl.ɪ.tən/

    Meaning of "cosmopolitan": of worldwide scope or applicability

    Adjective

  • Meaning: of worldwide scope or applicability
  • Example: an issue of cosmopolitan import the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time universal experience
  • Synonyms: cosmopolitan ecumenical general oecumenical universal world-wide worldwide
  • Similar: comprehensive
  • Pronunciation in UK: /kɒz.mə(ʊ)ˈpɒl.ɪ.tən/

  • Adjective: all-inclusive; affecting the whole world(of a place or institution) composed of people from all over the world(of a person) at ease in any part of the world(biology, ecology) growing in many parts of the world; widely distributed
  • Synonyms:

    worldly, urbane, cultured, metropolitan, sophisticated, catholic, universal, smooth, public, ecumenical, global, gregarious, planetary, polished, worldwide, cultivated, well-travelled,

    Antonyms:

    unsophisticated, specific, country, rural, unrefined, particular, rustic,

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