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cosmopolitan noun
Meaning : A sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries.
Synonyms : cosmopolite
cosmopolitan adjective
Meaning : Growing or occurring in many parts of the world.
Example :
A cosmopolitan herb.
Cosmopolitan in distribution.
Synonyms : widely distributed
Native to or confined to a certain region.
The islands have a number of interesting endemic species.endemic
Meaning : 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.
The ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt.
That queer, cosmopolitan, rather sinister crowd found around the Marseilles docks.
Characteristic of the provinces or their people.
Deeply provincial and conformist.In that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial.
Narrow provincial attitudes.
provincial
Meaning : Of worldwide scope or applicability.
Example :
An issue of cosmopolitan import.
The shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time.
Universal experience.
Synonyms : ecumenical, general, oecumenical, universal, world-wide, worldwide
