cosmopolitan

9 05 2008

Nouns
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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