cosmopolite

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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

Ataturk moved the capital from cosmopolite Constantinople to raw Ankara and changed Constantinople's name to Istanbul.

From Time Magazine Archive

Intending to make a cosmopolite and a critic of himself in his middle age, the boy from The Bronx has bought a tweed suit and a pigskin briefcase and begun a book on Giotto.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cosmopolite Dane profited by an opportunity to place himself beside the lady.

From The Jew by Kraszewski, Jo?zef Ignacy