| English | French |
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| cosmopolitan | cosmopolite |
| cosmopolitan | cosmopolitain |
English - Wordnet 3.0
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NOUN (1) 1. a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries; [syn: cosmopolitan, cosmopolite] ADJECTIVE (3) 1. growing or occurring in many parts of the world; - Example: "a cosmopolitan herb" - Example: "cosmopolitan in distribution" [syn: cosmopolitan, widely distributed] 2. composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests; - Example: "his cosmopolitan benevolence impartially extended to all races and to all creeds"- T.B. Macaulay - Example: "the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt" - Example: "that queer, cosmopolitan, rather sinister crowd found around the Marseilles docks" 3. of worldwide scope or applicability; - Example: "an issue of cosmopolitan import" - Example: "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley - Example: "universal experience" [syn: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, general, universal, worldwide, world-wide] | |