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(-p?l"?-tan), Cosmop"olite (k?z-m?p"?-l?t)} n.[Gr. ; ko°smos the world + citizen, city: cf. F. cosmopolitain, cosmopolite.] One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world. Cos°mopol"itan Cosmop"olite} 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. スポンサード リンク
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