cosmopolitan
9 05 2008Nouns
1. (n.) cosmopolitan, cosmopolite;
- a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries;
Adjectives
1. (adj.) cosmopolitan, widely distributed;
- growing or occurring in many parts of the world;
- “a cosmopolitan herb”; “cosmopolitan in distribution”;
2. (adj.) cosmopolitan;
- 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”;
3. (adj.) cosmopolitan, ecumenical, general, oecumenical, universal, world-wide, worldwide;
- of worldwide scope or applicability;
- “an issue of cosmopolitan import”; “the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time”; “universal experience”;
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