Search Result:cosmopolitan
KK Pronunciation
〔 ˏɑzmәˋpɑlәtN 〕
Pronunciation
〔 ˏkɒzmәˊpɒlitәn 〕
Overview of noun cosmopolitan
The noun cosmopolitan has 1 sense
- cosmopolitan, cosmopolite -- (a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries)
Overview of adj cosmopolitan
The adj cosmopolitan has 3 senses
- cosmopolitan, widely distributed -- (growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution")
- cosmopolitan -- (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")
- cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, general, universal, worldwide, world-wide -- (of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience")