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cos•mo•pol•i•tan



Pronunciation: (koz"mu-pol'i-tn), [key]
—adj.
1. free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world.
2. of or characteristic of a cosmopolite.
3. belonging to all the world; not limited to just one part of the world.
4. Bot., Zool.widely distributed over the globe.

—n.
a person who is free from local, provincial, or national bias or attachment; citizen of the world; cosmopolite.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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