Helping to share the web since 1996


Use the search bar above to find dictionary definitions - click home to search Link Centre for websites.

Dictionary definition for: Cosmopolitan

1. (n) a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries

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

3. (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

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

WordNet 2.1 Copyright Princeton University. All rights reserved.