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cosmopolite

/koz-mop-uh-lahyt/US // kɒzˈmɒp əˌlaɪt //UK // (kɒzˈmɒpəˌlaɪt) //

大都会人,大都会主义者,大都会主义者,大都会主义

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who is cosmopolitan in his or her ideas, life, etc.; citizen of the world.
    • : an animal or plant of worldwide distribution.

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Examples

  • It's far, far better for Americans to hear that kind of talk from him than from Obama, the black urban liberal cosmopolite.

  • Does the cosmopolite necessarily pay for his freedom by a want of function—the impersonality of not being representative?

  • As a cosmopolite, and on general principles of being, I prefer the Dalles way.

  • In manner and manners, tone and cast of thought he was English--delightfully English--though he cultivated the cosmopolite.

  • His accent was that of a traveled cosmopolite superimposed upon the speech of a place away off somewhere called the West Indies.

  • He had thought himself very sharp that first day in hitting them all off in his mind with the “cosmopolite” label.