Cosmopolitan

Cosmopolitan

Cosmopolitan may refer to:

Internationalism
  • A city/place or person that embraces its multicultural demographics
  • World citizen, one who eschews traditional geopolitical divisions derived from national citizenship
  • Cosmopolitanism, the idea that all of humanity belongs to a single moral community
  • Cosmopolitan Society/Cosmopolitan City, where people of many ethnicities, religions and cultures meet and live in close proximity (especially applied to busy sea ports)
Media
Industry
  • CC-109 Cosmopolitan, RCAF version of the Canadair CL-66
  • Cosmopolitan automobile company, a defunct American car maker
  • Nash Cosmopolitan, a defunct car model from Nash Motors
History
  • Rootless cosmopolitan, a Soviet derogatory epithet during Joseph Stalin's anti-Semitic campaign of 1949–1953
Popular culture
Science
Sport
Hotels and resorts
Apartments
  • Cosmopolitan Apartments in Virginia Beach Town Center, VA

Cosmopolite may refer to:

  • World citizen, one who eschews traditional geopolitical divisions derived from national citizenship
  • Cosmopolite (butterfly), Vanessa cardui, also known as the "Painted Lady"
  • Kosmopoliet, launched in 1854, said to have been the first Dutch clipper

See also

  • Cosmo (disambiguation)

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  • Cosmopolitan.fr — Cosmopolitan (magazine) Pour les articles homonymes, voir Cosmopolitan.  Cosmopolitan {{{nomorigine}}} …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Cosmopolitan — Cosmopolitan …   Википедия

  • Cosmopolitan B&B — (Палермо,Италия) Категория отеля: Адрес: Via Malta 21 , 90133 Палермо, Италия …   Каталог отелей

  • cosmopolitan — ► ADJECTIVE 1) consisting of people from many different countries and cultures: a cosmopolitan metropolis. 2) familiar with and at ease in many different countries and cultures. ► NOUN ▪ a cosmopolitan person. DERIVATIVES cosmopolitanism noun.… …   English terms dictionary

  • Cosmopolitan — Cos mo*pol i*tan, Cosmopolite Cos*mop o*lite, a. 1. Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal. [1913 Webster] In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively national …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • cosmopolitan — [käz΄mə päl′ə tən] adj. [< COSMOPOLITE + AN] 1. common to or representative of all or many parts of the world; not national or local 2. not bound by local or national habits or prejudices; at home in all countries or places 3. characterized by …   English World dictionary

  • Cosmopolitan — Cos mo*pol i*tan ( p?l ? tan), Cosmopolite Cos*mop o*lite (k?z m?p ? l?t), n. [Gr. kosmopoli ths; ko smos the world + poli ths citizen, po lis city: cf. F. cosmopolitain, cosmopolite.] One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Cosmopolitan —   [kɔzməʊ pɔlɪtən], amerikanische Frauenzeitschrift, gegründet 1886, erscheint seit 1905 in der Hearst Corporation, Auflage 2,6 Mio., mit 39 internationalen Ausgaben, darunter für Großbritannien (seit 1972), Australien (seit 1973), für Mexiko und …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Cosmopolitan — also Cosmo informal a monthly magazine for women, which is produced in separate ↑editions in the US, the UK, and many other countries. It is aimed at young modern independent women and deals with subjects such as fashion, work, and sex …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • cosmopolitan — (adj.) 1844, from COSMOPOLITE (Cf. cosmopolite) citizen of the world (q.v.) on model of metropolitan. The U.S. women s magazine of the same name was first published in 1886. Cosmopolitanism first recorded 1828 …   Etymology dictionary

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