or **Cosmopolitan**, a term Cossacks sometimes used to signify a person who has no fixed living or place of abode, or a man who is a stranger nowhere. The word comes from the Greek κόσμος, "world," and πόλις, "city." One of the ancient philosophers being interrogated what countryman he was answered, he was a cossopolites, i.e., an inhabitant or citizen of the world.