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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

A Californian by birth, a Frenchman by education, a cosmopolite by diplomatic service, Mr. Gibson was last week the guest of President Hoover at the White House.

From Time Magazine Archive

"No one," said Johnson, "has done more to help us work with our economy" than Leslie T. Hope, 64, a wealthy, California-based cosmopolite whose unpaid avocation is promoting U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like Herodotus, he was cosmopolite enough not to be narrowly patriotic.

From French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson




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