Main entry: cosmopolitan, cosmopolite
Definition: a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
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
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
Main entry: cosmopolitan, widely distributed
Definition: growing or occurring in many parts of the world
Usage: a cosmopolitan herb; cosmopolitan in distribution