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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries;
[syn: cosmopolitan, cosmopolite]


ADJECTIVE (3)

1. growing or occurring in many parts of the world;
- Example: "a cosmopolitan herb"
- Example: "cosmopolitan in distribution"
[syn: cosmopolitan, widely distributed]

2. composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests;
- Example: "his cosmopolitan benevolence impartially extended to all races and to all creeds"- T.B. Macaulay
- Example: "the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt"
- Example: "that queer, cosmopolitan, rather sinister crowd found around the Marseilles docks"

3. of worldwide scope or applicability;
- Example: "an issue of cosmopolitan import"
- Example: "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley
- Example: "universal experience"
[syn: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, general, universal, worldwide, world-wide]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cosmopolitan \Cos`mo*pol"i*tan\, Cosmopolite \Cos*mop"o*lite\,
   a.
   1. Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from
      local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal.
      [1913 Webster]

            In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively
            national, in Germany it is certainly too
            cosmopolite.                          --Sir W.
                                                  Hamilton.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of
      the world.
      [1913 Webster]

            The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan.     --R. Owen.
      [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cosmopolitan \Cos`mo*pol"i*tan\ (-p?l"?-tan), Cosmopolite
\Cos*mop"o*lite\ (k?z-m?p"?-l?t), n. [Gr. kosmopoli`ths; ko`smos
   the world + poli`ths citizen, po`lis city: cf. F.
   cosmopolitain, cosmopolite.]
   One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every
   place; a citizen of the world.
   [1913 Webster] Cosmopolitan


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cosmopolitan
    adj 1: growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a
           cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution" [syn:
           cosmopolitan, 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: cosmopolitan, ecumenical,
       oecumenical, general, universal, worldwide, world-
       wide]
    n 1: a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
         [syn: cosmopolitan, cosmopolite]