'Cosmopolite' definitions:
Definition of 'cosmopolite'
From: WordNet
noun
A sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries [syn: cosmopolitan, cosmopolite]
Definition of 'Cosmopolite'
From: GCIDE
- Cosmopolite \Cos*mop"o*lite\ (-m?p"?-l?t), a. & n. See Cosmopolitan. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cosmopolite'
From: GCIDE
- Cosmopolitan \Cos`mo*pol"i*tan\ (-p?l"?-tan), Cosmopolite \Cos*mop"o*lite\ (k?z-m?p"?-l?t), n. [Gr. kosmopoli`ths; ko`smos the world + poli`ths citizen, po`lis city: cf. F. cosmopolitain, cosmopolite.] One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world. [1913 Webster] Cosmopolitan
Definition of 'Cosmopolite'
From: GCIDE
- Cosmopolitan \Cos`mo*pol"i*tan\, Cosmopolite \Cos*mop"o*lite\, a.
- 1. Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal. [1913 Webster]
- In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite. --Sir W. Hamilton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world. [1913 Webster]
- The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan. --R. Owen. [1913 Webster]