Cos`mo*pol"i*tan (-p?l"?-tan), Cos*mop"o*lite (k?z-m?p"?-l?t), n. [Gr. ; 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.
© Webster 1913.
Cos`mo*pol"i*tan, Cos*mop"o*lite, 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.
© Webster 1913.
Cos*mop"o*lite (-m?p"?-l?t), a. & n.
See Cosmopolitan.
© Webster 1913.