1. (

• cosmopolitan ,
• cosmopolite

) a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries ;

1. (

• cosmopolitan ,
• widely_distributed ,

) growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution" ;

2. (

• cosmopolitan ,

) 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" ;

3. (

• cosmopolitan ,
• ecumenical ,
• oecumenical ,
• general ,
• universal ,
• worldwide ,
• world-wide

) of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience" ;