cosmopolitan

Words with a similar base: cosmopolitan

'cosmopolitan'

[cosmopolitan.n.01] as in: a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries

'cosmopolitan'

[cosmopolitan.a.01] as in: growing or occurring in many parts of the world

Examples:
a cosmopolitan herb
cosmopolitan in distribution

'cosmopolitan'

[cosmopolitan.a.02] as in: composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests; - T.B.

Macaulay

Examples:
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

'cosmopolitan'

[cosmopolitan.s.01] as in: of worldwide scope or applicability; ; - Christopher Morley

Examples:
an issue of cosmopolitan import
the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time
universal experience

Origins

					cosmopolitan (English)
├── -an (English)
│   └── -anus (Latin)
└── cosmopolite (English)

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