growing or occurring in many parts of the world; a cosmopolitan herb; cosmopolitan in distribution
[ Syn: widely distributed ]
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'
cosmopolitan (adj.)
a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
[ Syn: cosmopolite ]
cosmopolitan (n.)
of worldwide scope or applicability; an issue of cosmopolitan import; the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time- Christopher Morley; universal experience
[ Syn: ecumenical , oecumenical , general , universal , worldwide , world-wide ]