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cosmopolite

[koz-mop-uh-lahyt] / kɒzˈmɒp əˌlaɪt /


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The cosmopolite respects and appreciates difference, while acknowledging that “no local loyalty can ever justify forgetting that each human being has responsibilities to every other.”

From Slate • Sep. 14, 2018

In an era when university art departments, like museums, tended to be divided into fiefs, each controlled by a specialist, Mr. Rosand, a genuine cosmopolite, walked a broad terrain.

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2014

In the 1940s, Stravinsky, always a wandering cosmopolite, moved to Hollywood, near Schoenberg's home.

From Time Magazine Archive

The paper also took a dim view of Literary Lights T. S. Eliot, Stephen Spender and Edith and Osbert Sitwell as servants of "American cosmopolite expansionism."

From Time Magazine Archive

Indeed, to tell the truth, it’s not native at all; though on the other hand it is furiously cosmopolite, and that speaks to me too at my hours. 

From Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales by James, Henry




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