"cosmopolitan" adjective growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution" [syn: widely distributed (http://word.sc/widely distributed)] [ant: endemic (http://word.sc/endemic)] 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: provincial (http://word.sc/provincial)] 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 (http://word.sc/ecumenical), oecumenical (http://word.sc/oecumenical), general (http://word.sc/general), universal (http://word.sc/universal), worldwide (http://word.sc/worldwide)] noun a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries [syn: cosmopolite (http://word.sc/cosmopolite)] Source: http://www.word.sc/cosmopolitan

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