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  • noun Plural form of cosmopolite.

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Examples

  • For some strange reason most of the cosmopolites were of Jewish origins and those doctors too.

    Slimy Love Redux: Between Us, Anti-Semites. 2009

  • Whereas innovators are cosmopolites, early adopters are localites.

    Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 1995

  • They're cosmopolites of a sort: multilingual cable-TV watchers and consumers of fresh baguettes.

    Looking Out For Their Own Skin 2008

  • Whereas innovators are cosmopolites, early adopters are localites.

    Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003

  • Whereas innovators are cosmopolites, early adopters are localites.

    Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003

  • Detective Yakutsky's report went on to say that during the 1949 campaign against Jewish 'cosmopolites,' a Minsk rabbi named Solomon Davidov, a widower, was resettled in Irkutsk.

    Gorky Park Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1981

  • "The only persons here with whom I can reach some approximation of common ground are certain upper-class Townfolk, entrepreneurs, executives, innovators-cosmopolites who have had a good deal to do with the most developed parts of the Empire."

    The Day of Their Return Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1973

  • "The only persons here with whom I can reach some approximation of common ground are certain upper-class Townfolk, entrepreneurs, executives, innovators-cosmopolites who have had a good deal to do with the most developed parts of the Empire."

    The Day Of Their Return Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1973

  • We were Berkshire, or Gloucestershire, or Yorkshire boys; and you're young cosmopolites, belonging to all countries and no countries.

    Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

  • Literary and professional men in those twin-cities come nearer, to my thinking, to Wieland's cosmopolites

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various

  • In her timely and eye-opening first book, Abrahamian travels the globe to meet these willing and unwitting “cosmopolites,” or citizens of the world, who inhabit a new, borderless realm where things can go very well, or very badly.

    The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen 2023

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