cosmopolitan
/koz-muh-POL-ih-tun/adjectivefamiliar with and at ease in many different countries and cultures
“The port grew into a cosmopolitan city of forty tongues.”
- Synonyms
- worldly, international, sophisticated
- Antonyms
- provincial, parochial
- Memory hook
- cosmos (world) + polites (citizen): a citizen of the world.
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