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cosmopolitan
(encz) | cosmopolitan,kosmopolitní adj: Zdeněk Brož |
cosmopolitan
(encz) | cosmopolitan,světoobčanský adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Cosmopolitan
(gcide) | 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.
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In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively
national, in Germany it is certainly too
cosmopolite. --Sir W.
Hamilton.
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2. Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of
the world.
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The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan. --R. Owen.
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Cosmopolitan
(gcide) | 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.
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cosmopolitan
(wn) | cosmopolitan
adj 1: growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a
cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution" [syn:
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" [syn: cosmopolitan, ecumenical,
oecumenical, general, universal, worldwide, {world-
wide}]
n 1: a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
[syn: cosmopolitan, cosmopolite] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
cosmopolitan
(encz) | cosmopolitan,kosmopolitní adj: Zdeněk Brožcosmopolitan,světoobčanský adj: Zdeněk Brož |
cosmopolitanism
(encz) | cosmopolitanism,kosmopolitismus n: Zdeněk Brož |
Cosmopolitanism
(gcide) | Cosmopolitanism \Cos`mo*pol"i*tan*ism\ (k?z`m?-p?l"?-tan-?z'm),
n.
The quality of being cosmopolitan; cosmopolitism.
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cosmopolitan
(wn) | cosmopolitan
adj 1: growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a
cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution" [syn:
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" [syn: cosmopolitan, ecumenical,
oecumenical, general, universal, worldwide, {world-
wide}]
n 1: a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
[syn: cosmopolitan, cosmopolite] |
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