cosmopolitan
cos·mo·po·litan
adjective
1.
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”
3.
of worldwide scope or applicability
- “an issue of cosmopolitan import”
- “the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time” Christopher Morley
- “universal experience”
noun
1.
a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
Origin
From cosmopolit(e) + -an. Compare metropolitan and megalopolitan.
Phrases
- rootless cosmopolitan
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