Identify the meaning of 'cosmopolitan' from the following options:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Experience of a wide variety of things
Cosmopolitan means familiar with and at ease in many different countries and cultures. A cosmopolitan person has a wide experience of the world, and a cosmopolitan city has people from many countries.
Example: Mumbai is a cosmopolitan city with people from every part of India and abroad.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 2: Deeply involved with politics — Incorrect. A person deeply involved with politics is political. Cosmopolitan has nothing to do with politics.
Option 3: Expressing great interest in cosmology — Incorrect. Both words begin with "cosmo-" (from the Greek for world), but cosmology is the study of the origin of the universe.
Example: Stephen Hawking made great contributions to cosmology.
Option 4: Living in many places at the same time — Incorrect. No one can live in many places at the same time. A cosmopolitan person may have lived in many places, one after another.
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