noun
a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
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adjective
growing or occurring in many parts of the world
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widely distributed
Examples
- a cosmopolitan herb
- cosmopolitan in distribution
adjective
composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world
Examples
- 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
adjective
of worldwide scope or applicability
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Examples
- an issue of cosmopolitan import
- the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley
- universal experience