Synonyms for Cosmopolitan
Definition of cosmopolitan
adjective
- growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution"
- 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"
- of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience"
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"Cosmopolitan" in song lyrics
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"jessica simpson on the cover of cosmopolitan"
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"jessica simpson cosmopolitan"
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