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cosmopolitan

Adjective
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Having a worldly, international outlook; not limited to one place or nation.

Detailed Definition
Cosmopolitan can mean worldly or internationally minded, and it can also suggest belonging to many places at once. In this poem, the rat is imagined as crossing enemy lines with a kind of indifferent international loyalty.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Your cosmopolitan sympathies” praises an outlook extending beyond one nation or locality; Whitman’s “I am large, I contain multitudes” offers a capacious, though distinctly American, vision of human variety; Cosmopolitan imagery may include ports, translations, mixed languages, and international travel; A contemporary migration poem can complicate the term by asking whether global openness is equally available to every passport holder
Additional Notes
“Cosmopolitan” in “Your cosmopolitan sympathies” is used in a more specialized sense than the everyday meaning many readers know.; Found in the poem, Break of Day in the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg
Also Known As
global diverse universal eclectic
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