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cosmopolitan
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adjective (a)
- growing or occurring in many parts of the world(adj.all)Example:
A cosmopolitan herb.
Cosmopolitan in distribution.
source: wordnet30 - composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests(adj.all)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.
source: wordnet30 - Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal.(adjective)source: webster1913
noun (n)
- a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries(noun.person)source: wordnet30
- One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world.(noun)source: webster1913
adjective satellite (s)
- of worldwide scope or applicability(adj.all)Example:
An issue of cosmopolitan import.
source: wordnet30
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