Cosmopolitan

n.	1.	One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world.
a.	1.	Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal. In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite. - Sir W. Hamilton.
	2.	Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world. The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan. - R. Owen.

Noun	1.	cosmopolitan - a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries Synonyms: cosmopolite
Adj.	1.	cosmopolitan - growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution" Synonyms: widely distributed Antonyms: endemic - native to or confined to a certain region; "the islands have a number of interesting endemic species"
	2.	cosmopolitan - composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests; "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 - characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"
	3.	cosmopolitan - of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience" Synonyms: universal, ecumenical, oecumenical, worldwide, general

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