Meaning

4 senses
  1. Inclusive; affecting the whole world.

  2. Composed of people from all over the world.

    kosmopolitisch, weltbürgerlich

    космополити́чныйkosmopolitíčnyj, космополити́ческийkosmopolitíčeskij

    космополіти́чнийkosmopolitýčnyj

    composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests

  3. At ease in any part of the world; having a wide experience with many cultures.

    kosmopolitisch, weltbürgerlich

    космополити́чныйkosmopolitíčnyj, космополити́ческийkosmopolitíčeskij

    космополіти́чнийkosmopolitýčnyj

    growing or occurring in many parts of the world

  4. Growing or living in many parts of the world; widely distributed.

    kosmopolitisch, weltbürgerlich

    космополити́чныйkosmopolitíčnyj

    космополіти́чнийkosmopolitýčnyj

Examples

13 sentences
  1. Tom drank a Long Island iced tea and Mary drank a cosmopolitan.

  2. This city is not cosmopolitan at all.

  3. Algiers is an open, tolerant, cosmopolitan city.

  4. The journalist is what you call a cosmopolitan.

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  5. This is a cosmopolitan city.

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
composed of people from all over the world:
Русский
By meaning 1
composed of people from all over the world:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
composed of people from all over the world:

Origin

From cosmopolit(e) + -an. Compare metropolitan and megalopolitan.

From cosmopolit(e) + -an. Compare metropolitan and megalopolitan.

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Forms

more cosmopolitan, most cosmopolitan
Comparativemore cosmopolitan Lesson
Superlativemost cosmopolitan Lesson

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

9 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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