COSMOPOLITAN

• (noun) a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries

  synonyms : cosmopolite

• (adj.) 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"

• (adj.) growing or occurring in many parts of the world

  "a cosmopolitan herb", "cosmopolitan in distribution"

  synonyms : widely distributed

• (adj.) of worldwide scope or applicability

  "an issue of cosmopolitan import", "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time", "universal experience"

  synonyms : ecumenical , general , oecumenical , universal , world-wide , worldwide

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