Cosmopolitan - Definition

adj 1: growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a
cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution" [syn:
cosmopolitan, widely distributed] [ant: endemic]
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"- 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]
3: of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of
cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical
comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal
experience" [syn: cosmopolitan, ecumenical,
oecumenical, general, universal, worldwide, world-
wide]
n 1: a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
[syn: cosmopolitan, cosmopolite]