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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cosmopolitan \Cos`mo*pol"i*tan\ (-p?l"?-tan), Cosmopolite \Cos*mop"o*lite\ (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`mo*pol"i*tan\, Cosmopolite \Cos*mop"o*lite\, 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cosmopolite \Cos*mop"o*lite\ (-m?p"?-l?t), a. & n. See {Cosmopolitan}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: cosmopolite n : a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries [syn: {cosmopolitan}]
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