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cosmopolite

[koz-mop-uh-lahyt] / kɒzˈmɒp əˌlaɪt /
NOUN
citizen
Synonyms
STRONGEST
inhabitant national resident taxpayer
STRONG
burgher civilian commoner denizen dweller householder occupant settler townsman townsperson townswoman villager voter
WEAK
John/Jane Q. Public burgess freeman/woman member of body politic member of community naturalized person subject urbanite
Antonyms
STRONG
alien foreigner

Example Sentences

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Cosmopolite, metropolite, he conceives the function of the company to be the giving of opera in the best possible manner.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cosmopolite Colonel Sosthenes Behn built a $603 million communications empire that stretches from New Zealand to the Americas to Sweden.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cosmopolite Dolmetsch, son of a piano maker, was born at Le Mans, France, of Bohemian, German, Swiss and French ancestry, started out to be a violinist, studied with famed Violinist Vieuxtemps at the Brussels Conservatoire.

From Time Magazine Archive

First pledge our Queen this solemn night, Then drink to England, every guest; That man's the best Cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.

From The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book by Ontario. Ministry of Education

No narrow limits of sect or caste or nationality cramped him, the first great Cosmopolite.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

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