<b><font size="4">"cosmopolitan"</font></b><br/><b>adjective</b> <ol> <li>growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution" [syn: <a href="/">widely distributed</a>] [ant: <a href="../endemic.html">endemic</a>] </li> <li>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" [ant: <a href="../provincial.html">provincial</a>] </li> <li>of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience" [syn: <a href="../ecumenical.html">ecumenical</a>, <a href="../oecumenical.html">oecumenical</a>, <a href="../general.html">general</a>, <a href="../universal.html">universal</a>, <a href="../worldwide.html">worldwide</a>]</li> </ol> <b>noun</b> <ol> <li>a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries [syn: <a href="../cosmopolite.html">cosmopolite</a>]</li> </ol> Source: <a href="../cosmopolitan.html">http://www.word.sc/cosmopolitan</a>

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