cosmopolitan meaning and definition

COSMOPOLITAN noun

Definition of cosmopolitan (noun)

1. a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
   • synonyms: cosmopolite

COSMOPOLITAN adjective

Definition of cosmopolitan (adjective)

1. growing or occurring in many parts of the world
   • "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution"
   • synonyms: widely distributed
   • antonym: 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"
   • antonym: 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"
   • synonyms: ecumenical, general, oecumenical, universal, worldwide, world-wide