英语词汇cosmopolitan的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	cosmopolitan
词源	cosmopolitan; cosmonaut. Socrates, Diogenes, and Alexan- der the Great all claimed to be “citizens of the world,” which in Greek is kosmopolitis, the root of our word cosmopolitan. Today we apply cosmopolitan to a man at home anywhere, the word’s latest relative being cosmonaut, the Russian space pilot.
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