Cosmopolitan
[n] a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
[adj] of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience"
[adj] 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"
[adj] (ecology) growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution"
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Synonyms
comprehensive, cosmopolite, ecumenical, general, oecumenical, sophisticated, traveled, travelled, universal, urbane, widely distributed, worldwide
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all-comprehending, all-comprehensive, all-covering, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-filling, all-including, all-inclusive, allover, all-pervading, blase, braw, broad, broad-gauged, broad-minded, catholic, chic, citizen, citizen by adoption, city slic