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cosmopolitan
adjective
noun
Of worldwide scope or applicability
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adjective
Of worldwide scope or applicability
“An issue of cosmopolitan import”
adjective
Composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests
“{'source': 'T.B. Macaulay', 'text': 'his cosmopolitan benevolence impartially extended to all races and to all creeds'}”
adjective
Growing or occurring in many parts of the world
“A cosmopolitan herb”
noun
A sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
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An issue of cosmopolitan import
{'source': 'Christopher Morley', 'text': 'the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time'}
Universal experience
{'source': 'T.B. Macaulay', 'text': '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
A cosmopolitan herb
Cosmopolitan in distribution
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