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say it: kahz-muh-PAH-luh-tuhn
cosmopolitan is an adjective and noun meaning "growing or occurring in many parts of the world". It carries 4 recorded senses.
growing or occurring in many parts of the world
“a cosmopolitan herb”
“cosmopolitan in distribution”
ecology
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”
“the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt”
“that queer, cosmopolitan, rather sinister crowd found around the Marseilles docks”
of worldwide scope or applicability
“an issue of cosmopolitan import”
“the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time”
“universal experience”
a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cosmopolitan come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.