adj.
n.
- 复数: cosmopolitans
- Noun
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1. a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
- synonym: cosmopolite
- Adjective
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1. growing or occurring in many parts of the world;
- "a cosmopolitan herb"
- "cosmopolitan in distribution"
- synonym: widely distributed
- antonym: endemic
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2. 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"- T.B. Macaulay
- "the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt"
- "that queer, cosmopolitan, rather sinister crowd found around the Marseilles docks"
- antonym: provincial
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3. of worldwide scope or applicability;
- "an issue of cosmopolitan import"
- "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley
- "universal experience"
- synonym: ecumenical,oecumenical,general,universal,worldwide
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- 1.世界[广布]种
- 1. New York is a highly cosmopolitan city.
- 纽约是一个高度世界性的城市。
来自《简明英汉词典》


