1. (adj) cosmopolitan, cosmopolite
a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
2. (adj) cosmopolitan, widely distributed
growing or occurring in many parts of the world
"a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution"
3. (adj) cosmopolitan
composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests
"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"
4. (adj) cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, general, universal, worldwide, world-wide
of worldwide scope or applicability
"an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience"
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