Word:
Cosmopolitan
Status:
Noun
Meaning:
A person who has lived in or knows a lot about different parts of the world.
Sentences:
1) As someone who had lived in Paris for a year as an exchange student, she seem very much cosmopolitan to her old classmates.
2) His knowledge of Italian, Spanish and French made genuinely cosmopolitan.
Origin:
From cosmopolite + -an
First use:
circa 1645
Synonyms:
city slicker, cosmopolite, metropolitan, slicker, sophisticate
Antonyms:
bumpkin, hick, provincial, rustic, yokel.
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