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cosmopolitan
a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries • Syn: cosmopolite • Hypernyms: sophisticate, man of the world • Hyponyms: globetrotter, world traveler
1. growing or occurring in many parts of the world - a cosmopolitan herb - cosmopolitan in distribution • Syn: widely distributed • Ant: endemic • Topics: ecology, bionomics, environmental science 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 • Similar to: traveled, travelled 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, world-wide • Similar to: comprehensive • Derivationally related forms: universalize (for: universal), universe (for: universal), universality (for: universal)
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