Main entry: cosmopolitan
Definition: composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests
Usage: 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
Antonyms: provincial
Definition: characteristic of the provinces or their people
Antonyms: untraveled, untravelled
Definition: not traveled over or through
Main entry: cosmopolitan, widely distributed
Definition: growing or occurring in many parts of the world
Usage: a cosmopolitan herb; cosmopolitan in distribution
Antonyms: endemic
Definition: native to or confined to a certain region
Main entry: oecumenical, cosmopolitan, ecumenical, world-wide, worldwide, universal, general
Definition: of worldwide scope or applicability
Usage: an issue of cosmopolitan import; the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time- Christopher Morley; universal experience
Antonyms: noncomprehensive, incomprehensive
Definition: not comprehensive