–adjective 1. free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world.
2. of or characteristic of a cosmopolite.
3. belonging to all the world; not limited to just one part of the world.
4. Botany, Zoology. widely distributed over the globe.
–noun 5. a person who is free from local, provincial, or national bias or attachment; citizen of the world; cosmopolite.
Origin:
1835–45; cosmopolite + -an
Synonyms:
1. sophisticated, urbane, worldly.
Antonyms:
1. provincial, parochial.
15.3.09
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