cosmopolitan
adjective
1. growing or occurring in many parts of the world
- a cosmopolitan herb
- cosmopolitan in distribution
2. 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
Similar word(s): traveled, travelled
3. of worldwide scope or applicability
- an issue of cosmopolitan import
Similar word(s): comprehensive, ecumenical, general, oecumenical, universal, worldwide
noun
1. a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
Similar word(s): cosmopolite
Definition categories: person, sophisticate