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cosmopolite

Cos*mop"o*lite (-mp"-lt), a. & n. Defn: See Cosmopolitan. Cos`mo*pol"i*tan (-pl"-tan), Cos*mop"o*lite (kz-mp"-lt), n. Etym: [Gr. cosmopolitain, cosmopolite.] Defn: One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world. Cos`mo*pol"i*tan, Cos*mop"o*lite, a. 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.


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