English Explanatory Dictionary

rootless cosmopolitan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A Jew, particularly in the context of the antisemitic campaign in the Soviet Union from 1948 to 1953.

Word forms

rootless cosmopolitan rootless cosmopolitans

Etymology

Calque of Russian безро́дный космополи́т (bezródnyj kosmopolít).

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