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Meaning of word cosmopolitan from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.

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