See Also: cosmopolite(dictionary)
COSMOPOLITE(law)
border(1)(dictionary)
border(2)(dictionary)
Border(finance)
Border(medicine)
lateral border(medicine)
Border contrast(health)
free border(medicine)
frontal border(medicine)

border(2) (iou) and cosmopolite (iou)


border(2) (iou)



border verb. Also bordure. LME.
[from the noun.]
I. verb trans.
Put or form a border, edging, or boundary to. LME.
bordered pit: see PIT noun1.
Swift His night-cap border'd round with lace. H. Williamson Trimmed quickthorn hedges bordering the road.
b. Keep within bounds; confine. rare (Shakes.). Only in E17.
Cut up (a pasty). E16-M19.
Lie on the borders of; adjoin. M17.
C. Lyell Lands bordering the Mediterranean.
II. verb intrans.
Foll. by on, upon: lie on the border of, be contiguous to; fig. approach in character, verge on. M16.
M. Elphinstone Hill tribes, bordering on cultivated countries. B. Magee A sense of persecution which bordered on paranoia.

cosmopolite (iou)



cosmopolite noun & adjective. E17.
[French from Greek kosmopolites, formed as COSMO- + polites citizen.]
A. noun.
= COSMOPOLITAN noun 1. E17.
= COSMOPOLITAN noun 2. M19.
b. adjective. = COSMOPOLITAN adjective. E19.
,cosmopo'litical adjective [after political] relating to all States and polities L16.
cosmopolitism noun = COSMOPOLITANISM (a) L18.