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Adjective: cosmopolitan `kózmu'pólit(u)n- Growing or occurring in many parts of the world
"a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution"
- 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"; "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
"an issue of cosmopolitan import"
- ecumenical, oecumenical [archaic], general, universal, worldwide, world-wide
Noun: cosmopolitan `kózmu'pólit(u)n- 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 Encyclopedia: Cosmopolitan |