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cosmopolitan

koz muh po luh tuhn

  • n  a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
  • a  growing or occurring in many parts of the world
    a cosmopolitan herb
    cosmopolitan in distribution
  • a  composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests
    his cosmopolitan benevolence impartially extended to all races and to all creeds"- T.B. Macaulay
    the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt
    that queer, cosmopolitan, rather sinister crowd found around the Marseilles docks
  • s  of worldwide scope or applicability
    an issue of cosmopolitan import

  • Tolerance and an enlightened outlook is what distinguishes the cosmopolitan from the insular .
  • The cosmopolitan crowd gave a thumbs up to gun control and freedom of speech.
  • This city has a confluence of cultures and a cosmopolitan outlook.
News & Articles

  • Can You Tell the Difference Between a Cosmo Sex Tip and a Reddit Sex Tip?
    The intrepid self-proclaimed sex savants at Cosmopolitan took a subtle dig at the Internet netizens at Reddit by insinuating in a recent listicle that the "ultra-nerds" there have no idea how to handle sexy times with a woman. And, well, that went over about as well as you would expect it would when an oft-mocked women's magazine mocks a group of men with a lot of power on the Internet. But is ...
    June 13, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News
  • Poorly Paid Interns Sue Condé Nast
    Following the big Black Swan unpaid intern win yesterday, former interns at Condé Nast have sued the magazine publisher for back wages. Matthew Leib a former New Yorker intern and Lauren Ballinger, who worked at W Magazine are represented by the same lawyers in both the Black Swan suit against Fox Entertainment and former interns at Hearst's Harpers' Bazaar and Cosmopolitan. The Hearst suit is ...
    June 13, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News
  • On Budget: Free Concerts
    DJ Excel Old-school turntable talent DJ Excel has a client list that includes Jay-Z, Rihanna, Katy Perry and dozens of others. See why when he performs at 10 p.m. Friday at Bond at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, 3708 Las Vegas Blvd. South. The show is
    June 13, 2013 - Las Vegas Review-Journal
Quotes

  • Rais Yatim in FOXNews
    I hope Obama wins (because) of the need of the world to see the US represent a more cosmopolitan or universal political attitude,said Rais Yatim, the foreign minister of mostly Muslim Malaysia.
  • Horace Engdahl in USA Today
    I'm not aware that there are today any anti-French sentiments in the US And apart from that, Le Clezio, is a cosmopolitan. He lives part of the year in New Mexico,Engdahl said. "I would be very sad if that was the case."
  • Joe Zawinul in International Herald Tribune
    One thing about Viennese musicians, they can really groove, more than even the German bands can,Zawinul said in a 2007 Downbeat magazine interview. "It's something in our nature, perhaps. We're cosmopolitan and interracial - Czech, Slavic,...

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