cosmopolitan

  • (a) growing or occurring in many parts of the world
    • a cosmopolitan herb
    • cosmopolitan in distribution
    widely distributed,
  • (a) 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
  • (s) of worldwide scope or applicability
    • an issue of cosmopolitan import
    • "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley
    • universal experience
    universal, ecumenical, oecumenical, worldwide, world-wide, general,

Nouns

  • (n) a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries cosmopolite,

Synonyms

cosmopolite widely distributed universal ecumenical oecumenical worldwide world-wide general

Antonyms

endemic provincial

Words of close approximity

cosmopolite