1. Growing or occurring in many parts of the world
   "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution"
   - 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"; "the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt"; "that queer, cosmopolitan, rather sinister crowd found around the Marseilles docks" 
3. Of worldwide scope or applicability
   "an issue of cosmopolitan import"
   - ecumenical, oecumenical [archaic], general, universal, worldwide, world-wide

1. A sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
   - cosmopolite

Derived forms: cosmopolitans

See also: comprehensive, traveled [US], travelled [Brit, Cdn]

Type of: man of the world, sophisticate

Antonym: endemic, provincial

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