1. cosmopolitan, cosmopolite

a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries

• cosmopolite

2. cosmopolitan, widely distributed

growing or occurring in many parts of the world

Example Sentences:
'a cosmopolitan herb'
'cosmopolitan in distribution'

• widely distributed

3. cosmopolitan

composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests

Example Sentences:
'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'

• traveled
• travelled

4. cosmopolitan, ecumenical, general, oecumenical, universal, world-wide, worldwide

of worldwide scope or applicability

Example Sentences:
'an issue of cosmopolitan import'
'the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time'
'universal experience'

• ecumenical
• general
• oecumenical
• universal
• world-wide
• worldwide