| 单词 | cosmopolitan |
| 释义 | cosmopolitan (once / 2157 pages) adjn Your Aunt Eleanor, who's lived in six different countries and speaks four languages fluently, might be described as cosmopolitan, or comfortable and familiar with different cultures and people. People who are cosmopolitan have an air of glamour surrounding them, a sense that they've seen a lot of the world and are sophisticated and at ease with all different kinds of people. Places can also be described as cosmopolitan, meaning "diverse," or bustling with lots of people of varying nationalities. Any way you use it, cosmopolitan implies a sophistication, which might explain why both a well-known alcoholic cocktail and a famous women's magazine are both named after the word cosmopolitan. WORD FAMILYcosmopolitan: cosmopolitanly, cosmopolitans USAGE EXAMPLESHis was an astonishingly more cosmopolitan world-view than that displayed by today’s Chinese leaders. Economist(Nov 03, 2016) A reaction against the cosmopolitan complexity of the early 21st century. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) In a global age, should we cultivate national solidarity or aspire to a cosmopolitan ethic of universal human concern? The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) 1adj 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 Syn|Ant traveled, travelled familiar with many parts of the world provincial characteristic of the provinces or their people bumpkinly, hick, rustic, unsophisticatedawkwardly simple and provincial corn-fedstrong and healthy but not sophisticated insular, parochialnarrowly restricted in outlook or scope jerkwater, one-horse, pokey, pokysmall and remote and insignificant stay-at-homenot given to travel 2adj of worldwide scope or applicability an issue of cosmopolitan import Syn ecumenical, general, oecumenical, universal, world-wide, worldwide comprehensive including all or everything 3adj growing or occurring in many parts of the world a cosmopolitan herb cosmopolitan in distribution Syn|Ant widely distributed endemic native to or confined to a certain region 4n a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries Syn|Hypo|Hyper cosmopolite globetrotter, world traveler someone who travels widely and often man of the world, sophisticate a worldly-wise person |
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