cosmopolite
cosmopolite is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal. In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite. Sir W. Hamilton.
- 2.Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world. The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan. R. Owen.
- 3.See Cosmopolitan.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- and
- anthropogeny
- anthropography
- anthropoid
- anthropology
- anthroposophy
- being
- benevolence
- benevolent
- body
- brother
- chivalric
- chivalry
- citizen
- civic
- civism
- clan
- common
- commonalty
- commonweal
- commonwealth
- communism
- communist
- community
- consanguinity
- cosmopolitan
- cosmopolitanism
- country
- creation
- creature
- earthling
- errant
- errantry
- ethnography
- ethnology
- family
- fellow
- flesh
- folk
- general
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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