COSMOPOLITAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cosmopolitan mean?
• COSMOPOLITAN (noun)
The noun COSMOPOLITAN has 1 sense:
1. a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
Familiarity information: COSMOPOLITAN used as a noun is very rare.
• COSMOPOLITAN (adjective)
The adjective COSMOPOLITAN has 3 senses:
1. growing or occurring in many parts of the world
2. composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests
3. of worldwide scope or applicability
Familiarity information: COSMOPOLITAN used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• COSMOPOLITAN (noun)
Meaning:
A sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
cosmopolitan; cosmopolite
Hypernyms ("cosmopolitan" is a kind of...):
man of the world; sophisticate (a worldly-wise person)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cosmopolitan"):
globetrotter; world traveler (someone who travels widely and often)
• COSMOPOLITAN (adjective)
Meaning:
Growing or occurring in many parts of the world
Synonyms:
cosmopolitan; widely distributed
Context examples:
a cosmopolitan herb / cosmopolitan in distribution
Domain category:
bionomics; ecology; environmental science (the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment)
Antonym:
endemic (native to or confined to a certain region)
Meaning:
Composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests
Context examples:
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
Similar:
traveled; travelled (familiar with many parts of the world)
Antonym:
provincial (characteristic of the provinces or their people)
Meaning:
Of worldwide scope or applicability
Synonyms:
universal; ecumenical; oecumenical; cosmopolitan; world-wide; worldwide; general
Context examples:
an issue of cosmopolitan import / the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time / universal experience
Similar:
comprehensive (including all or everything)
