Adjective
1. growing or occurring in many parts of the world;
"a cosmopolitan herb""cosmopolitan in distribution"2. 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"3. of worldwide scope or applicability;
"an issue of cosmopolitan import""the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley"universal experience"