word | cosmopolitan |
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definition | (1) Having international sophistication and experience. (2) Made up of persons, elements, or influences from many different parts of the world. |
eg_sentence | New York, like most cosmopolitan cities, offers a wonderful array of restaurants featuring foods from around the world. |
explanation | Since cosmopolitan includes the root polit-, from the Greek word for “citizen”, someone who is cosmopolitan is a “citizen of the world.” She may be able to read the morning paper in Rio de Janeiro, attend a lecture in Madrid, and assist at a refugee camp in Uganda with equal ease—and maybe all in the same week. And a city or a country that is cosmopolitan has aspects and elements that come from various countries |
IPA | ˌkɑzməˈpɑlətən |
Tags: mwvb::unit:9, mwvb::unit:9:word, mwvb::word, mwvb::word-cloze, mwvb::word-reverse, obsidian_to_anki
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