Meaning & Definition of Cosmopolitan in English

1. A sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries

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"