noun
- A sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries.
- synonyms: cosmopolite
adjective
- Growing or occurring in many parts of the world.
- usage: "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution"
- synonyms: widely distributed
- Composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests.
- usage: "his cosmopolitan benevolence impartially extended to all races and to all creeds- T. B. Macaulay; "the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt"; "that queer, cosmopolitan, rather sinister crowd found around the Marseilles docks"
- Of worldwide scope or applicability.
- usage: "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time- Christopher Morley; "universal experience"
- synonyms: ecumenical, oecumenical, general, universal, worldwide, world-wide
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