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cosmopolitan in WordNet English dictionary
noun- a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
cosmopolitan cosmopolite
adjective- growing or occurring in many parts of the world
"a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution"
cosmopolitan widely distributed
- 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
- 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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