单词 | cosmopolitan |
释义 | cosmopolitan —cosmopolitanism, n. —cosmopolitanly, adv. /koz'meuh pol"i tn/, adj. 1. free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world. 2. of or characteristic of a cosmopolite. 3. belonging to all the world; not limited to just one part of the world. 4. Bot. , Zool. widely distributed over the globe. n. 5. a person who is free from local, provincial, or national bias or attachment; citizen of the world; cosmopolite. [1835-45; COSMOPOLITE + -AN] Syn. 1. sophisticated, urbane, worldly. Ant. 1. provincial, parochial. |
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