What is the meaning of cosmopolitan?

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