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A drink and a worldview both insist you belong everywhere and answer to no flag.
means Belonging to or at home in the whole world rather than one place — broad-minded, well-traveled, free of narrow local prejudice; also a vodka-and-cranberry cocktail bearing the same name.
from From the Greek kosmopolitēs, 'citizen of the world,' stitching together kosmos ('world, order, universe') and politēs ('citizen,' from polis, the city-state). The philosopher Diogenes the Cynic is said to have declared himself a kosmopolitēs when asked where he came from — refusing any single city's claim on him. The word entered English through Greek and French roots; the cocktail sense is a much later 20th-century borrowing of the worldly glamour the older word already carried.
- sex and the city
- The cocktail became a cultural icon via one HBO show.
- word roots
- From Greek kosmos plus polites: citizen of the world.
- the cranberry
- Cosmopolitan's pink owes everything to cranberry juice.
- diogenes
- Ancient cynic first called himself a world citizen, defiantly.
- the magazine
- Started in 1886 as a family literary journal.
cosmopolitan cocktail — vodka-cranberry-cointreau drink popularized in 1980s new york and featured on sex and the city
cosmopolitan magazine — women's lifestyle magazine founded in 1886, circulating in 58 countries as of 2024