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cosmopolitan

3 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. 1) cosmopolitan (noun)
  2. 2) cosmopolitan (adjective)
  3. cosmopolitan justice (noun)

1cos·mo·pol·i·tan

noun \ˌkäz-mə-ˈpä-lə-tən\

Definition of COSMOPOLITAN

1
: cosmopolite
2
: a cocktail made of vodka, orange-flavored liqueur, lime juice, and cranberry juice —called also cos*mo, \ˈkäz-(ˌ)mō\
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Examples of COSMOPOLITAN

  1. <as someone who had lived in Paris for a year as an exchange student, she seemed very much the cosmopolitan to her old classmates>

First Known Use of COSMOPOLITAN

circa 1645

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Other Alcoholic Beverage Terms

finish, gimlet, mull, sake, setup, sommelier, syllabub, vintner, wassail

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