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cosmopolitan

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cosmopolitan in WordNet English dictionary

noun
  1. a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
    cosmopolitan  cosmopolite 
adjective
  1. growing or occurring in many parts of the world
    "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution"
    cosmopolitan  widely distributed 
  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"
    cosmopolitan 
  3. of worldwide scope or applicability
    "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience"
    cosmopolitan  ecumenical  oecumenical  general  universal  worldwide  world-wide 
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