27 January 2018
cosmopolitan
[koz-muh-pol-i-tn]
adjective
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. Botany, Zoology. widely distributed over the globe.
noun
5. a person who is free from local, provincial, or national bias or attachment; citizen of the world; cosmopolite.
6. a cocktail made with vodka, cranberry juice, an orange-flavored liqueur, and lime juice.
Origin of cosmopolitan
1835-1845 First recorded in 1835-45; cosmopolite + -an
Related forms
cosmopolitanism, noun
cosmopolitanly, adverb
noncosmopolitan, adjective, noun
noncosmopolitanism, noun
uncosmopolitan, adjective
Synonyms
1. sophisticated, urbane, worldly.
Antonyms
1. provincial, parochial.
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Examples from the Web for cosmopolitan
Contemporary Examples
The Levant is already a far cry from the cosmopolitan melting pot it once was.
Beirut Letter: In Lebanon, Fighting ISIS With Culture and Satire
Kim Ghattas
September 22, 2014
Anagram
complains too
optical moons
monastic polo
moonlit capos
Today’s quote
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.
– Pete Seeger
On this day
27 January – International Holocaust Memorial Day in remembrance of the 11 million victims of the Nazi holocaust before and during the Second World War. Victims included 6 million Jews (3 million of whom were Polish), 3 million Polish Christians, 2 million gypsies, and millions of others, including Africans, Asians, people with mental or physical disabilities, Communists, Socialist, Unionists, intellectuals, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Slavs, Freemasons, political activists and anyone else either opposed to Nazi ideology, or living in land Hitler wanted (particularly Poland) or who didn’t fit his idea of a perfect master race. The date was chosen because 27 January 1945 was the date that Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz-Birchenau, the largest of the Nazi death camps.
27 January 1756 – birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer. Died 5 December 1791.
27 January 1926 – In London, John Logie Baird publicly demonstrates a revolutionary new invention, the television system.
27 January 1945 – The Soviet Army liberates survivors of the largest Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz in Poland, where it is estimated more than 1,000,000 Jews and tens of thousands of others were executed.
27 January 1967 – Outer Space Treaty was signed by 60 countries, including the USA and USSR, prohibiting the placement of weapons of mass destruction in space.
27 January 1973 – the Vietnam War formally ends with a treaty signed between the USA, North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
27 January 1984 – Michael Jackson’s hair catches on fire while he is singing ‘Billy Jean’ during filming of a Pepsi commercial.
27 January 2014 – death of Peter Seeger, American singer-songwriter, musician, activist. Born 3 May 1919.