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    [Noun]  | "cos*mop*o*lite" | \ käz-ˈmä-pə-ˌlīt \


    1: a sophisticated, widely traveled person : a cosmopolitan person

    2: an organism found in most parts of the world and under varied ecological conditions : a cosmopolitan organism


    Origin: circa 1618 ;

     New Latin cosmopolites, from Greek kosmopolitēs, from kosmos + politēs citizen;

    [Noun]  | "cosmopolite" 


    1: a person with the outlook, experience, and manners thought to be typical of big city dwellers;


      * e.g., " ... having sung in opera houses all over the world, she has the confident demeanor of a seasoned cosmopolite "





     [ "cosmopolite" ]

    1: noun: a) a synonym for an urbaweller

      * e.g.,  ... in terms of definition c) mentioned above, a person can very well be a cosmopolite and still live in the countryside 


     [ "cosmopolite" ]

    2: b) (offensive) : in Stalin's Soviet Union (1928- March 6, 1953) an offensive designation for Jews adj: c) someone who has a cosmopolitan political worldview (and a sort of bohemian sense of music, art, culture, literature, architecture, etc..)


     [ "cosmopolite" ]

    3: d) (offensive): a person who has received a private high school education, especially if the person then moves back to the countryside to live like landed gentry

     [ "cosmopolitical" ]

    1: Street savvy politicial know-how for the urbanites.

      * e.g.,  ... Oh my gosh, those gay guys are so cosmopolitical. 

     [ "cosmopolitics" ]

    1: N. A term coined for describing the phenomenom of teenagers who think it is cool to follow politics or participate in teen-leadership groups such as JSA. Such people are cosmopoliticians. To be used in a negative connotation.

      * e.g.,  ... Ben spends so much time debating with JSA and reading the Wall Street Journal. Jumped right onto the cosmopolitics bandwagon. 

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