| cosmopolitan | (คอซมะพอล'ลิเทิน) adj. เกี่ยวกับโลกทั้งหมด, เกี่ยวกับสากลนิยม, ซึ่งมีอยู่ทั่วโลกหรือทุกหนทุกแห่ง, ซึ่งประกอบด้วยหลายชาติหลายภาษา, ซึ่งไม่มีชาติหรือภาษาเป็นเครื่องผูกมัด, เกี่ยวกับพลเมืองโลก n. ผู้ที่ไม่มีชาติหรือภาษาเป็นเครื่องผูกมัด, See also: cosmopo |
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| | | Cosmopolitan | { } 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 | { } 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 ] | Cosmopolitanism | n. The quality of being cosmopolitan; cosmopolitism. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| cosmopolitan | (n) a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries, Syn. cosmopolite | cosmopolitan | (adj) growing or occurring in many parts of the world, Syn. widely distributed, Ant. endemic | cosmopolitan | (adj) composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests; - T.B. Macaulay, Ant. provincial | cosmopolitan | (adj) of worldwide scope or applicability; ; - Christopher Morley, Syn. general, world-wide, oecumenical, worldwide, universal, ecumenical |
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cosmopolitan
adj 1: growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a
cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution" [syn:
{cosmopolitan}, {widely distributed}] [ant: {endemic}]
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" [ant: {provincial}]
3: of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of
cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical
comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal
experience" [syn: {cosmopolitan}, {ecumenical},
{oecumenical}, {general}, {universal}, {worldwide}, {world-
wide}]
n 1: a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
[syn: {cosmopolitan}, {cosmopolite}]
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