[QUOTE] [B][SIZE="4"]"cosmopolitan"[/SIZE][/B] [B]adjective[/B] [LIST=1] [*]growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution" [syn: [URL="http://www.word.sc/widely distributed"]widely distributed[/URL]] [ant: [URL="http://www.word.sc/endemic"]endemic[/URL]] [*]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: [URL="http://www.word.sc/provincial"]provincial[/URL]] [*]of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience" [syn: [URL="http://www.word.sc/ecumenical"]ecumenical[/URL], [URL="http://www.word.sc/oecumenical"]oecumenical[/URL], [URL="http://www.word.sc/general"]general[/URL], [URL="http://www.word.sc/universal"]universal[/URL], [URL="http://www.word.sc/worldwide"]worldwide[/URL]] [/LIST] [B]noun[/B] [LIST=1] [*]a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries [syn: [URL="http://www.word.sc/cosmopolite"]cosmopolite[/URL]] [/LIST] Source: [URL="http://www.word.sc/cosmopolitan"]http://www.word.sc/cosmopolitan[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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