Cosmopolitan
adjective
Being comfortable and familiar with many different cultures and countries.
She considers herself a cosmopolitan person, having travelled in over 50 countries.
Often appears as...
- cosmopolitan city
- cosmopolitan lifestyle
noun
A person who is at home in any part of the world and is not limited to just one country or culture.
Being well-travelled, he is a true cosmopolitan.
Often appears as...
- cosmopolitan is cosmopolitan
- a true cosmopolitan
adjective
Anything that includes or contains elements from many different parts of the world.
The menu at the restaurant is cosmopolitan with dishes from every continent.
Often appears as...
- cosmopolitan cuisine
- cosmopolitan music
adjective
Being comfortable and familiar with many different cultures and countries.
She considers herself a cosmopolitan person, having travelled in over 50 countries.
Often appears as...
- cosmopolitan city
- cosmopolitan lifestyle
noun
A person who is at home in any part of the world and is not limited to just one country or culture.
Being well-travelled, he is a true cosmopolitan.
Often appears as...
- cosmopolitan is cosmopolitan
- a true cosmopolitan
adjective
Anything that includes or contains elements from many different parts of the world.
The menu at the restaurant is cosmopolitan with dishes from every continent.
Often appears as...
- cosmopolitan cuisine
- cosmopolitan music
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Adaptability
Used to describe someone who easily adapts to different cultural settings.
Her cosmopolitan outlook made her popular among diverse groups.
Pro Tip 2/3Diverse Experience
Implies a person has been exposed to and appreciates various cultures.
His cosmopolitan experiences enrich his perspective on life.
Pro Tip 3/3Sophisticated Taste
Often suggests refined and diverse tastes influenced by multiple cultures.
Her cosmopolitan fashion sense catches everyone's attention.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Adaptability
Used to describe someone who easily adapts to different cultural settings.
Her cosmopolitan outlook made her popular among diverse groups.
Pro Tip 2/3Diverse Experience
Implies a person has been exposed to and appreciates various cultures.
His cosmopolitan experiences enrich his perspective on life.
Pro Tip 3/3Sophisticated Taste
Often suggests refined and diverse tastes influenced by multiple cultures.
Her cosmopolitan fashion sense catches everyone's attention.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Adaptability
Used to describe someone who easily adapts to different cultural settings.
Her cosmopolitan outlook made her popular among diverse groups.
Pro Tip 2/3Diverse Experience
Implies a person has been exposed to and appreciates various cultures.
His cosmopolitan experiences enrich his perspective on life.
Pro Tip 3/3Sophisticated Taste
Often suggests refined and diverse tastes influenced by multiple cultures.
Her cosmopolitan fashion sense catches everyone's attention.
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Understanding the rise...
virtually the rest of the world, in fact, which have been in a far weaker position, vis-a-vis the West -- have been thereby forced to understand the West, because of the West's presence in those societies. And therefore, they are, as a result, more cosmopolitan in many ways than the West.
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Sheikha Al Mayassa:...
to one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, New York City. At the same time, we are inviting them to come and explore our part of the world. They're learning our culture, our language, our heritage and realizing we're just as different and just the same as each other.
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The price of a "clean"...
such a debate should be openly discussed in new, cosmopolitan parliaments, in new institutions that reflect the diversity of people contributing to a utopian project of a global network. And while it may seem impossible to consider the values of users worldwide,
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Creativity builds...
But more importantly, Kenyans may finally consider themselves worthy of the love that we reserve for others. Kenya's creative industry is dynamic, cosmopolitan, forward-looking, and without a doubt, a true manufacturing industry of the immediate future.
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How nationalism and...
Out-of-touch, one-percent plutocrats? Or maybe the heartless, greedy Wall Street type, right? Or maybe people like me, with multiple origins, living in a big, cosmopolitan metropolis. Well, you remember that World Values Survey that I mentioned earlier?
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Actually, the world...
they spend per person per poor person in poor countries the ratio Branko Milanovic at the World Bank that the calculations turns out to be about thirty thousand to one now of course some of us if we truly are cosmopolitan
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My year reading a book...
What do my bookshelves say about me? Well, when I asked myself this question a few years ago, I made an alarming discovery. I'd always thought of myself as a fairly cultured, cosmopolitan sort of person.
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The politics of fiction...
yet this diversity did not necessarily lead to a cosmopolitan, egalitarian classroom democracy. Instead, it generated an atmosphere in which each child was seen -- not as an individual on his own,
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The biggest risks facing...
they're cosmopolitan, they're sexy. They're the perfect antidote to reactionary nationalism. But cities have a dark side. They take up just three percent of the world's surface area,
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The Hidden Tomb PIPE...
from foreign countries it was a cosmopolitan city and it was a very big city
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Understanding the rise...
virtually the rest of the world, in fact, which have been in a far weaker position, vis-a-vis the West -- have been thereby forced to understand the West, because of the West's presence in those societies. And therefore, they are, as a result, more cosmopolitan in many ways than the West.
Video examples
Sheikha Al Mayassa:...
to one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, New York City. At the same time, we are inviting them to come and explore our part of the world. They're learning our culture, our language, our heritage and realizing we're just as different and just the same as each other.
Video examples
The price of a "clean"...
such a debate should be openly discussed in new, cosmopolitan parliaments, in new institutions that reflect the diversity of people contributing to a utopian project of a global network. And while it may seem impossible to consider the values of users worldwide,
Video examples
Creativity builds...
But more importantly, Kenyans may finally consider themselves worthy of the love that we reserve for others. Kenya's creative industry is dynamic, cosmopolitan, forward-looking, and without a doubt, a true manufacturing industry of the immediate future.
Video examples
How nationalism and...
Out-of-touch, one-percent plutocrats? Or maybe the heartless, greedy Wall Street type, right? Or maybe people like me, with multiple origins, living in a big, cosmopolitan metropolis. Well, you remember that World Values Survey that I mentioned earlier?
Video examples
Actually, the world...
they spend per person per poor person in poor countries the ratio Branko Milanovic at the World Bank that the calculations turns out to be about thirty thousand to one now of course some of us if we truly are cosmopolitan
Video examples
My year reading a book...
What do my bookshelves say about me? Well, when I asked myself this question a few years ago, I made an alarming discovery. I'd always thought of myself as a fairly cultured, cosmopolitan sort of person.
Video examples
The politics of fiction...
yet this diversity did not necessarily lead to a cosmopolitan, egalitarian classroom democracy. Instead, it generated an atmosphere in which each child was seen -- not as an individual on his own,
Video examples
The biggest risks facing...
they're cosmopolitan, they're sexy. They're the perfect antidote to reactionary nationalism. But cities have a dark side. They take up just three percent of the world's surface area,
Video examples
The Hidden Tomb PIPE...
from foreign countries it was a cosmopolitan city and it was a very big city
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Eavan Boland
Irish Poet
I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.
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Romesh Gunesekera
Sri Lankan Author
My parents knew a wider range of people than most, and so we had actors, journalists, politicians, planters, sportsmen and women and business folk all coming in and out of the places we lived in. Although my parents were not wealthy, they lived a legendary and amazingly cosmopolitan life.
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Kim Cattrall
English Actress
Shows like 'Sex and the City' got women involved again in a political way. They were drawn into the personal stories of the four women who together make up one complete cosmopolitan woman. We want to have community, and the show filled that void in our lives: friendship between women.
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Ulrich Beck
German Sociologist
And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view.
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Ethan Zuckerman
American Activist
It's my fond hope that social networks such as Facebook will help users broaden their perspectives by listening to a different set of people than they encounter in their daily life. But I fear services such as Facebook may be turning us into imaginary cosmopolitans.
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Uzodinma Iweala
American Author
Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible, and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than not, they are sectioned and controlled purviews of the radically wealthy, surrounded by clusters of have-nots.
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Jurgen Habermas
German Philosopher
The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.
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Kareena Kapoor Khan
Indian Actress
My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
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Vivek Agnihotri
Indian Director
A city's soul is best observed during the morning, what is the culture of the city, how are the people, you also get to know whether the city is cosmopolitan or religious.
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Jamie Bamber
English Actor
L.A.'s become so cosmopolitan in its casting and also in its world view.
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Eavan Boland
Irish Poet
I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.
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Romesh Gunesekera
Sri Lankan Author
My parents knew a wider range of people than most, and so we had actors, journalists, politicians, planters, sportsmen and women and business folk all coming in and out of the places we lived in. Although my parents were not wealthy, they lived a legendary and amazingly cosmopolitan life.
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Kim Cattrall
English Actress
Shows like 'Sex and the City' got women involved again in a political way. They were drawn into the personal stories of the four women who together make up one complete cosmopolitan woman. We want to have community, and the show filled that void in our lives: friendship between women.
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Ulrich Beck
German Sociologist
And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view.
Quote examples
Ethan Zuckerman
American Activist
It's my fond hope that social networks such as Facebook will help users broaden their perspectives by listening to a different set of people than they encounter in their daily life. But I fear services such as Facebook may be turning us into imaginary cosmopolitans.
Quote examples
Uzodinma Iweala
American Author
Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible, and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than not, they are sectioned and controlled purviews of the radically wealthy, surrounded by clusters of have-nots.
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Jurgen Habermas
German Philosopher
The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.
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Kareena Kapoor Khan
Indian Actress
My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
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Vivek Agnihotri
Indian Director
A city's soul is best observed during the morning, what is the culture of the city, how are the people, you also get to know whether the city is cosmopolitan or religious.
Quote examples
Jamie Bamber
English Actor
L.A.'s become so cosmopolitan in its casting and also in its world view.
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