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- noun Plural form of
cosmopolite .
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Examples
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For some strange reason most of the cosmopolites were of Jewish origins and those doctors too.
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Whereas innovators are cosmopolites, early adopters are localites.
Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 1995
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They're cosmopolites of a sort: multilingual cable-TV watchers and consumers of fresh baguettes.
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Whereas innovators are cosmopolites, early adopters are localites.
Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003
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Whereas innovators are cosmopolites, early adopters are localites.
Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003
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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
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"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
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"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
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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
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Literary and professional men in those twin-cities come nearer, to my thinking, to Wieland's cosmopolites
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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.
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