cosmopolitan (adj.)

  1. growing or occurring in many parts of the world; a cosmopolitan herb; cosmopolitan in distribution

    [ Syn: widely distributed ]

  2. 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 (n.)

  1. a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries

    [ Syn: cosmopolite ]

    cosmopolitan (adj.)

  1. 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 ]

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