cosmopolitan (
http://definr.com/cosmopolitan)
adj 1: (ecology) growing or occurring in many parts of the world;
"a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution"
[syn:
widely distributed] [ant:
endemic]
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" [ant:
provincial]
3: of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of
cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and
ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley;
"universal experience" [syn:
ecumenical,
oecumenical,
general,
universal,
worldwide]
n : a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
[syn:
cosmopolite]