cosmopolitan

adj 1: (ecology) growing or occurring in many parts of the world;

"a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution"

[syn: {widely distributed}] [ant: {endemic}]

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}]

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}]

n : a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries

[syn: {cosmopolite}]