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cosmopolitan 音标拼音: [k ,ɑzməp'ɑlətən] n. 四海为家的人 四海为家的人 cosmopolitan adj 1: growing or occurring in many parts of the world; " a cosmopolitan herb"; " cosmopolitan in distribution" [ synonym: { cosmopolitan}, { 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" [ synonym: { cosmopolitan}, { ecumenical}, { oecumenical}, { general}, { universal}, { worldwide}, { world- wide}] n 1: a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries [ synonym: { cosmopolitan}, { cosmopolite}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite. -- Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world. [ 1913 Webster] The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan. -- R. Owen. [ 1913 Webster]
Cosmopolitan \ Cos` mo* pol" i* tan\ (- p? l"?- tan), Cosmopolite\ Cos* mop" o* lite\ ( k? z- m? p"?- l? t), n. [ Gr. kosmopoli` ths; ko` smos the world poli` ths citizen, po` lis city: cf. F. cosmopolitain, cosmopolite.] One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world. [ 1913 Webster] Cosmopolitan119 Moby Thesaurus words for " cosmopolitan": all- comprehending, all- comprehensive, all- covering, all- embracing, all- encompassing, all- filling, all- including, all- inclusive, all- pervading, allover, blase, braw, broad, broad- gauged, broad- minded, catholic, chic, citizen, citizen by adoption, city slicker, civic, civil, classy, clothes- conscious, common, communal, cosmopolite, country- wide, dapper, dashing, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, ecumenic, ecumenical, ecumenistic, elegant, experienced, exquisite, galactic, general, genteel, hyphenate, hyphenated American, immigrant, international, jaunty, knowing, man of experience, man- about- town, mature, matured, metic, national, natty, naturalized citizen, neat, nifty, nobby, nondenominational, noninsular, nonnative citizen, nonsectarian, not born yesterday, old, planetary, posh, practiced, public, recherche, ripe, ripened, ritzy, sagacious, seasoned, sharp, sleek, slicker, smart, smug, snazzy, social, societal, soigne, soignee, sophisticate, sophisticated, spacious of mind, spiffy, spruce, state, style- conscious, subject, supranational, swank, swanky, swell, total, traveled, tricksy, tried, tried and true, trig, trim, unbigoted, unfanatical, unhidebound, universal, unparochial, unprovincial, veteran, well- dressed, well- groomed, well- traveled, wide, wide- minded, world- wide, world- wise, worldly, worldly- wise
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